Well I got the 23" Cinema display that i paid $350 for w/ shipping. It included the box, power adapter, and all documentation. Looks in good condition and no dead pixels.
2 things on the image:
- there is a small amount of yellowing on the left/right edges of the screen, mostly noticeable on white windows. With other colors on those parts of the screen it appears slightly darker but not really noticeable. a search found this has been a very common problem with these displays -- this display was introduced in 2004 and discontinued in 2008 -- does the presence of this problem help me date my display?
- there is like a crystalized appearance to everything, sort of like my old Dell LCD from 2005. hard to explain but it looks almost like the screen is covered in incredibly small pieces of sharp glass dust which reflect different colors depending on the angle you look at them. so if i'm looking at a white screen and move my head left to right, focusing on the same spot of the screen, there's this rainbow effect. weird.
i've always thought that Mac displays just make Macs look like Macs...something about the colors, how everything is smooth but not blurry. With my Dell LCD it always looked like I had OSX running on a Windows computer (or my brain was just influenced by the Dell logo and cheap plastic bezel). But I still get that Windows feel from this 23" Cinema display. My 20" iMac G4, i think has a nicer LCD, and it looks like a Mac.
so, in conclusion, i am hardly blown away by this LCD, but i did upgrade from 20" to 23", my desk looks cooler, this LCD will hold some value b/c it's Apple, and my Dell will go to Goodwill for a tax write-off.
