Exactly. I don't see Apple effecting some price breakthrough with 30" LED displays, but I do see them leaving the 30" fluorescent for the time being the way they did with the 17" MBP.
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Exactly. I don't see Apple effecting some price breakthrough with 30" LED displays, but I do see them leaving the 30" fluorescent for the time being the way they did with the 17" MBP.
The need for orientation
I know it's undeniably a harsh, provocative and politically incorrect comment with the lovely advantage to make my point very clear.
Don't you feel the need for a strong, orientation providing opinion in the desert of relativity fom time to time?
I take it you're unfamiliar with the phrase " beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
That's a nice touch calling people blind or morons who don't possess your aesthetic superiority.
I know it's undeniably a harsh, provocative and politically incorrect comment with the lovely advantage to make my point very clear.
Don't you feel the need for a strong, orientation providing opinion in the desert of relativity fom time to time?
HDMI is a pretty cheap cable option, additionally, if apple did monitors with built in speakers, with multiple hdmi inputs, don't care if they also have dvi/hdcp, then your other devices like cable/sat/DVR, Blu-Ray players and more will work on your apple Monitor.
instead of offering this, apple is the snail, they are dragging their heels on blu-ray and comparable technology.
How come the difference in screen sizes between tv's and monitors? For example the the Apple Cinema comes in 23 and 30 where as tv's are more 24 and 32? Think it's about time that your telly and monitor become one. Can't be doing with buying a new version of both.
With Apple TV would be nice if Apple made there displays more tv friendly e.g. you can watch telly on it? In an ideal world would like the new monitor to be able to connect sky box and ps3 ect. Then the iphone would be the remote!
Then they could bring out the Imac TV
Blue ray. (As long as you could take the stand off and have it wall mounted)
I'm off to the Apple shop with a tool box, electrics for dummies and a hammer to create the future...
With Apple TV would be nice if Apple made there displays more tv friendly e.g. you can watch telly on it? In an ideal world would like the new monitor to be able to connect sky box and ps3 ect. Then the iphone would be the remote!
Then they could bring out the Imac TV
Blue ray. (As long as you could take the stand off and have it wall mounted)I'm off to the Apple shop with a tool box, electrics for dummies and a hammer to create the future...
its good news that they are finally updating them, however my 23" ACD bought in Spring has been the best monitor I have ever used, and I'm not too sure how any of the updates that people are proposing could really benefit me. As it stands my monitor is big, of fantastic build quality (with no dead pixels or backlight bleeding), it uses technology that has been continually refined for years, and is overall marvelous to work on and it matches my mac pro.
I paid £530 for it and got applecare for free, so i know that its good for the next three years at least. I do not think that for the quality of the display it is too overpriced, especially when I compare it to my samsung sm19" which has broken after only 9 months, and never looked anywhere near as good in the first place!
I paid £530 for it and got applecare for free, so i know that its good for the next three years at least. I do not think that for the quality of the display it is too overpriced, especially when I compare it to my samsung sm19" which has broken after only 9 months, and never looked anywhere near as good in the first place!
No they don't. Maybe the monitors, but definitely not the Mac Pro.
If you really think the Mac Pro needs one, why, and what would Apple be adding or what are they missing that doesn't give the pros what they need?
Completely different technology for the innards for many of the hi end monitors and TVs. As well as the lower resolutions to support for the TVs.
so what you what are more inputs. So what would you gain from having multiple HDMI inputs instead of multiple DVI inputs?! you can connect *any* HDMI device to a DVI port via a wonderful little HDMI-DVI cable. This includes devices like cable/sat/DVR, Blu-Ray players and more... HDCP works fine over DVI.
you would then just need to sort the audio out with some speakers.
HDMI - High definition **MULTIMEDIA** interface is not needed on a device that deals with just ONE type of media - in this case video. Unless I'm horribly wrong and then will someone please enlighten me!
I've heard of a 30" ultra-high-resolution display with 3840·2400 resolution. Apple would wait for resolution independence before adopting that (and every other high-resolution notebook panel
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I agree. I'd rather have a separate iSight rather than a fixed one. I think the fixed iSight concept works well on a laptop, but not necessarily on a monitor. It would need to be somewhat mobile or adjustable in some way, methinks.
I personally dont think the display needs much of external redesign. Despite having a 4 year old design, it is still the best looking monitor to date. In addition, the Mac Pro certainly does not need a redesign. It is a professional looking monster built for performance.
I've heard of a 30" ultra-high-resolution display with 3840·2400 resolution. Apple would wait for resolution independence before adopting that (and every other high-resolution notebook panel
Wow, seriously, that is some wicked high resolution.
I better eat my carrots
I'm just thinking... says Apple releases ultra high resolution displays... and lets say they work perfect w/ resolution independent OS X... where does that leave all other OS? Would everything just get tiny as hell when you boot into Windows?
That's what you get for using Windows.I'm just thinking... says Apple releases ultra high resolution displays... and lets say they work perfect w/ resolution independent OS X... where does that leave all other OS? Would everything just get tiny as hell when you boot into Windows?
... where does that leave all other OS? Would everything just get tiny as hell when you boot into Windows?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_independence
"The Windows Presentation Foundation from Microsoft, and consequently, WPF applications, are also designed to be resolution-independent, which means that Windows Vista also supports resolution independence"
The combination of WPF for new apps and improved native scaling makes Vista pretty good - not completely resolution independent, but you can do a decent job of stretching things. (I've set up Vista with 46" LCD displays for demos - you need to scale everything up quite a bit for all screen info to be easily readable from 4m away.)
The original prices are the prices the displays had when they were first introduced.I'm not sure if someone's pointed this out or if it's even newsworthy, but check out refurb display prices!
Ah seems you're right! I don't keep up with current display prices so I wouldn't have known. False alarm!
I'm not sure if someone's pointed this out or if it's even newsworthy, but check out refurb display prices!
PS There's some awesome deals on a lot of Macs too!
That's the only way to buy to tell the truth. If I ever had to buy a new Mac with my own cash it'd be refurbished all the way. Even when compared to the current prices, the refurbed displays are a great deal. Getting $100 - $150 off is never bad.
Don't try to reason with them. That poster won't be back since they will be looking online for panels that don't exist. Anyone that says an IPS panel can be had for $300 is fooling themselves and living in a fantasy world.
Stop giving away the best secrets!
Now when I see 'SOLD OUT', I know who to blame.
I agree, I think the ACD line and Mac Pro look incredible, even 4 years later.
On a side note, I just ordered another 30" last night. This new info doesn't really make me feel remorseful for purchasing another 30" ACD. I think the current ACD is great, the LED will obviously be better/brighter, but it probably won't be very much of an upgrade over the current monitors. I don't use my ACD's for anything except computer work so extra connections are useless to me.
Sure would be great to see a price drop between now and then.
MORE like now or never. I would like to upgrade to the 30" but no one wants to pay 2k or 1700 with student discount even though it may be worth it. I would like to see if the new ones have a built in isight HD. Would be nice too.
