old apple display worth it?

[Iglio]

should I buy a 22 inch old apple display for about 150$

 

[velocityg4]

Well if you have a G4 to match it with I would go with it for appearance sake. However it uses an ADC connector so you would need a DVI to ADC adapter that will supply power for the Cinema display. Since those old displays get power and video through the one cable.

For anything other than a Powermac G4 I would just buy a new display. Low end ones are really cheap off of newegg. They will have much better response times and I would imagine color quality would be better just because of how much newer the panels are. Though I can not personally attest to this second supposition.

 

[CWallace]

Don't the G4 video cards have ADC? Both my 867MHz G4 QS and 2x1GHz G4 MDD have ADC connectors on their video cards.

 

[velocityg4]

Don't the G4 video cards have ADC? Both my 867MHz G4 QS and 2x1GHz G4 MDD have ADC connectors on their video cards.

Yes they do. I just was not clear on my meaning in my first sentence. If you have a G4 go for it since the display complements it and it should have an ADC connector.

Unless of course it has a third party non-ADC video card or predates the Gigabit Ethernet G4 as it was the first to add the 28volt rail to its powersupply. I think the G4 Cube has ADC as well.

The only other Mac that may have had ADC would possibly be one of the early G4 Powerbooks. But I am feeling too lazy to look it up at the moment.

 

[skunk]

I think the G4 Cube has ADC as well.

Correct.

 

[benmrii]

The older Apple Displays are tanks. Assuming you have the proper hardware I'd say $150 would be well spent.

... although talking him down to $100 wouldn't hurt.