Do tell what displays do you find acceptable and for what applications and for what price point? I have some Samsung high end displays which are far inferior to Apples's offerings in my opinion.
I had an HP f2105 bought in 2006 that was much superior to anything else I've seen ever since. It was a VA panel, very fast in games and the color accuracy and contrast were also top notch. Beyond that, most VA TVs surpass the Apple displays in color accuracy, although the resolution is not as high, my main concern when buying an LCD is color accuracy, contrast, latency (gray to gray in old models or black to white / white to black in new, overdriven models)
More importantly is what display/OS/application do you currently use professionally that requires such color perfection?
Games. Professionally, anything that can do 16 colors is fine with me, but games require decent displays in order to provide proper immersive experiences, and white leaking is a huge turn off in dark environments.
Local Best Buy has had the 21 inch since they were announced. Not a huge seller, according to their Apple guy. Previous model is doing great though, thanks to it's discounted price. They sold out of remaining stock quickly. 27" has only been stocked twice, and even then only a couple units of the base configuration. All were sold to corporate accounts before they even hit the floor. Production company, he believed. No word on restock schedule.
Local Best Buy has had the 21 inch since they were announced. Not a huge seller, according to their Apple guy. Previous model is doing great though, thanks to it's discounted price. They sold out of remaining stock quickly. 27" has only been stocked twice, and even then only a couple units of the base configuration. All were sold to corporate accounts before they even hit the floor. Production company, he believed. No word on restock schedule.
I'm having trouble believing the bolded part. Apple hasn't been shipping the previous model for almost 4 months. You're claiming that Best Buy had > 4 months supply on the shelf in spite of it selling well (so they'd have to have had an even larger number in stock)?
And, on top of that, it's been off their web site for many months. If they had enough in stock to be "doing great" for all this time, why didn't they use the web site to sell them?
I'm having trouble believing the bolded part. Apple hasn't been shipping the previous model for almost 4 months. You're claiming that Best Buy had > 4 months supply on the shelf in spite of it selling well (so they'd have to have had an even larger number in stock)?
And, on top of that, it's been off their web site for many months. If they had enough in stock to be "doing great" for all this time, why didn't they use the web site to sell them?
I don't buy it.
You never heard of a Cash discount? You just discount everything Cash says.
Hoping to get some word on my 27... Apple is not telling my reseller ANYTHING about my order, not even an estimate of 3 to 4 weeks as they have listed on their online store, not even that my order is being processed.
Apple please sort this iMac availability issue out. Even for those of us using a MBP, the more Macs that are sold the more money to Mac developers and the better apps we get.
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I had an HP f2105 bought in 2006 that was much superior to anything else I've seen ever since. It was a VA panel, very fast in games and the color accuracy and contrast were also top notch. Beyond that, most VA TVs surpass the Apple displays in color accuracy, although the resolution is not as high, my main concern when buying an LCD is color accuracy, contrast, latency (gray to gray in old models or black to white / white to black in new, overdriven models)
Games. Professionally, anything that can do 16 colors is fine with me, but games require decent displays in order to provide proper immersive experiences, and white leaking is a huge turn off in dark environments.
I'm having trouble believing the bolded part. Apple hasn't been shipping the previous model for almost 4 months. You're claiming that Best Buy had > 4 months supply on the shelf in spite of it selling well (so they'd have to have had an even larger number in stock)?
And, on top of that, it's been off their web site for many months. If they had enough in stock to be "doing great" for all this time, why didn't they use the web site to sell them?
I don't buy it.
You never heard of a Cash discount? You just discount everything Cash says.
Hoping to get some word on my 27... Apple is not telling my reseller ANYTHING about my order, not even an estimate of 3 to 4 weeks as they have listed on their online store, not even that my order is being processed.
Apple please sort this iMac availability issue out. Even for those of us using a MBP, the more Macs that are sold the more money to Mac developers and the better apps we get.