Like I said in my other post, I believe it's being discontinued and the MacBook Air is going to be redubbed "MacBook"- either way, when I follow that link, all of the images EXCEPT the MacBook's display a blue "?" in a box..... perhaps they have taken them down?
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Like I said in my other post, I believe it's being discontinued and the MacBook Air is going to be redubbed "MacBook"- either way, when I follow that link, all of the images EXCEPT the MacBook's display a blue "?" in a box..... perhaps they have taken them down?
Are you telling me a MDP macbook pro can run 2 of the current 27" MDP displays? or would the current 27" MDP displays need a MDP on the actual monitor?
Sigh... I read through all 9 pages and I'm the only one who wishes for a smaller monitor. I guess that explains why there isn't one. But man I really wish I could buy a 21.5" apple monitor, I love the mag safe/usb part of the monitor but 27" is just too big for some work setups. And 3rd party solutions all suck currently.
@djsukebe
You can't run two MDP 27" monitors off of a MBP right now because the MDP doesn't have the right ports to do it. If Apple had just put two MDP or DP ports on it it would have been possible (with proper drivers supplied by Apple), but they went with their current cable design instead.
You can't run two MDP 27" monitors off of a MBP right now because the MDP doesn't have the right ports to do it. If Apple had just put two MDP or DP ports on it it would have been possible (with proper drivers supplied by Apple), but they went with their current cable design instead.
The prices have changed the Cinema Display. $ 999 to € 1,099 ?(Germany)? and it comes an "Oops! An error has occurred during your session. Please return to the Store Menu to continue shopping." if you click on the box in the store.
All Stores.... So you can´t currently buy a Cinema Display!
All Stores.... So you can´t currently buy a Cinema Display!
It would appear from his description that you would either need a MDP hub of some kind or for one of the displays to have a MDP on it to connect to the second monitor. If this is true, it is possible (but extremely unlikely) that these new displays may support this on MDP Macs.
It seems apple has removed the lion based mac images from the site again. The Dutch site doesn't feature the images either, so guess it wasn't meant to be shown yet!
Haha yeah, i'm doing a chat with a apple store online worker, he's like "I'm not sure whats wrong, hang on. Let me look into this."
But you are also forgetting that the apple displays come with an isight built in, a usb and other port hub, and a 49 watt sound system. Getting all that stuff separately from your displays can cost the difference between your display and the Apple Cinema Display.
i'm glad I waited to buy other 27-inch LED, I hope this new cinema display will work on my current model Mac Pro
Good luck with that. My experience of the online chat workers is that they know nothing more than you can see on the website and it takes them half an hour to find the correct page.
Sounds like fun though.
The HD 3000 can handle dual monitors, which means 1 external display and the internal display. It will not handle (as far as I know), three displays which is what you are talking about.
They could have a crippled price and feature Snow Leopard machine. The other crippled C2D machines they have had are evidence. That said, there is a need for any polycarbonate portable Apple has the inclination to offer, so why not make it i5? Or A5?
Rocketman
The HD3000 is worthless. Apple just acknowledged it in this "MBP 15 and 17 only" restriction.
Question is, why did Apple bother putting a TB port on a machine that can't really make use of it? If it's just to plug in external drives, Firewire 800 took care of that already.
It will eleviate the need for a usb cable as data and video can be transferred at the same time.
Makes sense but the picture shows a MacBook Pro connected to the Cinema Display with two connections to the MacBook Pro, just like the current model.
I think the problem with the website is they posted the images showing Lion on the display a week in advance. I doubt there is a new Cinema Display at all and there will be a new MacBook as originally predicted.
Apple's web division seems to be eligible for "amateur hour".
Well, its been over an hour and the page is still down.
We COULD assume that the Second ACD Display is simply mirroring the first ACD display thus the Macbook Pro would still only be running two monitors, with the second just a mirror of the first ACD
How many iSights do I need? My MBP has one. And 49w sound systems? Won't be mixing anything on those, I can assure you. I highly doubt that a usb hub, cheap speakers and a web cam would come anywhere near the cash I saved doing it the way I did.
If you wanted to talk about color accuracy, brightness, viewing angle, and related specs, you'd have a better argument regarding value. But for my specific application, the pluses far, far outweighed the minuses. Easier on my neck and far easier on my wallet.
I only mentioned it because running multiple monitors off of a MBP has been a reality for years already, albeit not as easily and cleanly implemented as the TB/MDP configs will be from now on.