Apple Officially Discontinues 30-Inch and 24-Inch Cinema Displays

[MagnusVonMagnum]

Too bad (an)other monitors are so blatantly ugly and distract you from your work.

P.S. Really saddens me to see how Apple is slowly leaving the pro desktop sector.

LOL. I never heard of an ugly monitor distracting someone from their work before.

I remember getting a 13" NTSC monitor for my Commodore 64 back around 1984 and thinking how much better it was than using a blurry TV set as a monitor. Then there was my first RGB monitor, a Commodore 1084S (s for stereo speakers) I first used with my Amiga 500 around 1989. Good times. I'm glad I was distracted by their sheer ugliness. Then I got an Amiga 3000 (with a whopping 5MB of ram!) and it had a de-interlacer so I got my first 15" multi-sync monitor (it could handle both the NTSC and VGA modes). I went through a few of these in the '90s as they only tended to last about 2-3 years each before they utterly failed. Ironically, I ended up with a 20" CRT Dell with my first Mac which is now connected to both the old Amiga 3000 and my Mac Netbook. It might be ugly, but it still works.

Let's see, I have an 22" AOC flatscreen connected to my PowerMac and both a 20" NEC Mulit-sync CRT and a 24" LG flatscreen connected to my PC and another 24" LG flatscreen as a dock for my MBP. I don't think any of them are "ugly" but then I look at the picture, not the trim (usually polished or unpolished black, which looks very undistracting to me and more importantly their screens are matte, which means no reflections which means less distraction still).

Maybe you could ask your doctor about ADD?

 

[xbjllb]

hmn.. Dell 30" wide gamut calibrated with Spyder.. not a good combination. Did you know spyder calibrator are not really compatible for wide gamut lcd? they also have the most inter instrument variation between each of the spyder.

http://lists.apple.com/archives/colorsync-users/2009/Nov/msg00175.html

Thanks for the info... I'll upgrade asap.

Yikes! I tremble at your thunderous sermon. You are very important indeed. How do you have time to post on places like this when you are busy creating the next Avatar in the middle of a glass-walled room?

Besides, Job's home rotates with the sun, thus he is not aware of glare issues. This along with the truck-mounted 900' AT&T cell tower that follows him everywhere (although there is some argument as to whether he is aware of this or not).

How do you know your point is right and dead on the money? When one person throws up a straw universe to knock down, and another goes on a very stupid and very erroneous stalking mission, with the resulting repercussions.

 

[englishman]

Must get one of these 30" before they sell out... or sell my MP and get a 27" iMac i7...

 

[lairdo]

Must get one of these 30" before they sell out...

I bought one a few weeks ago and have to say I am very, very happy with it. I had a 23" ACD that I moved to my wife's Mac Mini. The 30" is running off my 2008 Mac Pro nVidia card. If the price wasn't so darn high, I might be tempted to buy a second one.

I used my NAPP discount at the Apple Store, but I think given that I paid sales tax that cheaper options exist at other Etailers like B&H Camera.

 

[ton123]

I hope in future they bring back the anti-glare version just as they did with the macbook pro's line. Just as they took the control button out of the ipod shuffle and re-introduce them again.

 

[iCole]

I think it makes sense. It easier for Apple to not having to compete with other manufacturers by offering a gala of different screens. They are expensive anyway and don't have that much added value. I wouldn't buy one anyway. But too still keep a screen in their gamma, they just use the screen with the most added value (a highres 27 inch) and use the same screen for their iMacs, so it's cheaper and easier in the end.

 

[jasonbitesapple]

Wow, this post is like a horror movie. You don't want to read it, but you somehow can't stop. I love Apple, and I'm typing this on a 24" iMac. I'm never going back to Windows, but only if Apple doesn't leave the computer market.

I hope they soon realize all of us are screaming and screaming. They can't hear us, because they have their stupid iPod Touches and iPhones in their ears, listening to all the people who LOVE IT.


Apple,
WHY???

 

[KeriJane]

WHY?

Oh, that's easy.

They didn't sell well enough, that's why!

Apple built some of the best monitors ever and we did nothing but complain about the cost and went out and bough the $199 el-cheapo junk.


Don't look at me, I did my part.

Still enjoying my 20" and 23" ACDs...
Keri

 

[daneoni]

lol ^

did apple announce the UK price of the 27" yet ?

£899

*Hugs his 24" tightly* Now i'm even more glad i got it and have AppleCare for it.