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First 24" LED Cinema Displays Arrive

Mad Mac Maniac said:
so ridiculous... why would you create a display that ONLY works on laptops... and ONLY on 3 specific laptop models which have only been out for a month... seems absurd to me... :confused:
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why would someone create new ipods every year that only works with new cases?
why would someone buy new pants that only matches with their fluorescent green wife beater tang-tops?
...:D
 
grue said:
If you're comparing brightness, contrast and response rates… the Apple won't win.

Unfortunately, that's not a valid comparison. For example, compare the horsepower on a Lotus Exige vs a Hummer H3. Want to bet which is faster?

The specs don't tell the full story, as usual. The Samsung display will NOT be an IPS panel. It will NOT have a camera built in. It will NOT charge your laptop.
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Exactly. Also, the Samsung display specs probably look higher because it has a cheap TN panel which has fast response times (response time is not an advantage of IPS or PVA panels). However, TN panels have narrow viewing angles and has massive colour and contrast shift. Also, the Samsung display will not be LED backlit. However, nobody has yet to show that the panel in the LED cinema display is indeed H-IPS and not *VA.
 
8CoreWhore said:
I'd be willing to pay extra for an ACD as they are nice and unique... but twice as much as others with same or better specs? No way, Jose. :cool: EDIT: Ok... LED BLU is worth some money, too....
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1.) No others have LED (even though this is the reason why they are this hot, LEDs have a pretty bad efficiency compared to fluorescend light bulbs).
2.) There is no cheaper monitor in the market with better specs. All cheaper ones are TN panels which suffer from 6bit colour/per channel (ergo 3x6bit = 18bit colour).
 
shervieux said:
:eek:2nd thought, don't ever do this.... the white macbook hinge blocks the vent - talk about a HOT macbook after only 10 minutes of playing music videos (was not even rendering).
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If it gets hurt by that, why does it support this modus of operation anyway? It worked perfectly fine fo my blackbook, which I used to put in a vertical position right behind my black Samsung 24" LCD. Placed between the display and it's stand, revealing the white :apple: logo to me when I looked at it. It worked perfectly for 3 years! Watch the temperature though!

However I stopped doing that with the silver MacBook because the colour doesn't match and it looks awful. I was hoping to buy a 24" LED cinema display to re-establish that nice setup but I don't know wether there is enough space between display and stand of the cinema display to do so.
 
shoopaman said:
why would someone create new ipods every year that only works with new cases?
why would someone buy new pants that only matches with their fluorescent green wife beater tang-tops?
...:D
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I don't know that Apple was the one making all those cases!:rolleyes:

I have never seen a fluorescent green wife beater.

Sorry, your examples are just terrible.
 
LED Display

After hovering in front of the new LED backlit display at the Apple store and fiddling with the attached Adobe CS version, I established that I could enjoy the brightness, but not seeing my ugly face reflecting back at me despite the ambient lighting. Oh, and then there's the connection issue w/ my early 08 MBP.

Intent on seeking options, I find that Eizo offers a new LED backlit matte-screened 24" monitor that has the same specs as the Apple unit.

http://www.eizo.com/products/lcd/ev2411w/index.asp

Perhaps this PVA screen is the same as lurking in Apple guise. They both even have little speakers in the same orientation. It has a 5 year warranty and is supposed to cost about $780 US
 
synth3tik said:
I don't know that Apple was the one making all those cases!:rolleyes:

I have never seen a fluorescent green wife beater.

Sorry, your examples are just terrible.
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Don't have to be sorry, because it was a sarcasm:rolleyes:
you can probably BTO the FGWB...
 
Dont flame my ignorance

But some things I dont understand.

Can you close the lid of the macbook while using this?

If not, would it not get annoying having two displays showing the same thing?

Is this literally, just a monitor? :confused:
 
jabingla2810 said:
Dont flame my ignorance

But some things I dont understand.

Can you close the lid of the macbook while using this?

If not, would it not get annoying having two displays showing the same thing?

Is this literally, just a monitor? :confused:
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you can close the lid, and they can work as seperate displays (increasing the desktop space)

This has a higher resolution than the laptop offers. (1920 x 1200) and yes, it's just a monitor.
 
jabingla2810 said:
Dont flame my ignorance

But some things I dont understand.

Can you close the lid of the macbook while using this?

If not, would it not get annoying having two displays showing the same thing?

Is this literally, just a monitor? :confused:
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It is just a monitor, but you can run the laptop in clamshell mode. You can also set up dual displays if you want.
 
Mad Mac Maniac said:
so ridiculous... why would you create a display that ONLY works on laptops... and ONLY on 3 specific laptop models which have only been out for a month... seems absurd to me... :confused:
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It does work with other machines as well, if you have an adapter. And that adapter is on it's way. This isn't really that much of a problem, really.
 
What about the Air ?

How well does this work with the new Air ? Specifically, the magsafe connector on the Air is on the opposite side of the computer from the USB and display ports - is the multi-headed cable long enough to reach around to BOTH sides of the Air ?

If not, this would be a crazy design error, but so far I've not heard anything saying it does work Ok.
 
While i have not read all the comments so dont get mad I repeat something but this monitor is sooooo stupid. And that thought that They would one day add a mini display port on a mac pro is even more ridiculous. with all the products that apple is making it seems really that they are moving away from performance desktops and into general products (like iphone as some kind of mobile gaming device). by changing to some kind of port that is not the standard it forces people to uses there products and just as bad add adaptors.

It was clear how well this worked with the first iphone where u had to have an adaptor to uses any other head phones besides the apple one (never understood how that got past some kind of test group) as well as how well this worked when they used to have that mini DVI ****.

When you have mac pro u want to be able to plug it into any monitor or even a TV, and now you need a **** load of adaptors. on the article about this site some one said that it was great because u also get an extra power cord, well who care about that and they are so over priced, its not really a doc if u still have to put in 3 plugs and the speakers on that are not even key.

Sorry for this angry rant but Apple really is pissing me off with **** they do like this (as well as that issue for playing bought videos from itunes on not the new display from the new mac pro) people asked for HDMI but iv never heard of these problems from displays that have HDMI imputes. it seems like the sensible thing to do would be to make the code either what is is or a secondary one that is dvi with a speaker and USB pug as well for everyone else in the world
 
Gee4orce said:
How well does this work with the new Air ? Specifically, the magsafe connector on the Air is on the opposite side of the computer from the USB and display ports - is the multi-headed cable long enough to reach around to BOTH sides of the Air ?

If not, this would be a crazy design error, but so far I've not heard anything saying it does work Ok.
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that is a good q. but :apple: isn't that stoe-pid. ...but they do have :apple:TV still.

i'm sure the cable would be long enough.
 
Fail - apple is smoking crack. I'm supposed to pay that much for a monitor that will have no functionality if I decided to stop using it with my macbook and let my GF use it on her mac mini? (oh wait, my 2-month-old white macbook doesn't work with it, and neither does my 1-year-old mac mini.) And it's glossy, so all the sun that shines in my huge windows in the morning will result in a great mirror image of my messed-up morning hair. How stupid. My 22" samsung (read: MATTE) LCD has been fantastic, and I spent what, $275 on it two years ago? haha... apple puh-leeezeeee. I'm a fanboy but I have limits.
 
For that money, I must be missing something

I'd like to watch movies ive downloaded on a big screen, does this have any advantages over just conecting my macbook to my 32" HD TV via HDMI?
 
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