30" Display - sure hope so. AND I earnestly hope the new cinemas will have continued SWOP certification and any additional certs related to color fidelity and print, pre-press, graphic and design folks. I can hardly wait for a nice 30" SWOP cert display and more!
No big whoop. Apple's is designed so much better, check out the ugly "disk" at the bottom. It looks stupid. Most publications I have read say that Apple has the best displays out there, not to mention in real life they DO look sharper.
I've said it before, but any new display from Apple will need to have a thinner bezel framing.
But instead of just making it smooth stainless steel, add the same cheese grater texture of the G5 (but make the holes much smaller and closer together). Keep the same easy tilt/adjust third leg at the back but somehow make it wall mountable as well.
Yeah, I'd love to see a standalone 1440x900 17" display from Apple...in new "aluminated" design with less wasted area around the screen area itself.
Since the displays are meant to go with the G5 and the PowerBooks, I'm hoping to see an update/redesign at SOME point. Besides, it's been YEARS at this current design. Everything else has changed so drastically over the past 3 years (the iMac, iBook and towers).
The Sony's nice - I like the swivel/tilt stand, and the thinner bezel. I don't really like the 23" Apple - I use one every day at work. The bezel is FAT, the screen ghosts a lot and it just sits there, impossible to move. I also think it looks too plasticky.
Hope fully an Apple update will include the thinner metallic bezel, better stand and slightly higher resolution. The I'll buy one for myself.
I'm a brand new switcher w/ a maxed out 15" albook on the way. (80 gig 5400 HD, superdrive, 2 gigs ram) I'm on pins and needles to get it. The only thing that sucks is buying all new software, but I'm grinning through the pain.
Back to topic... I'm just wondering what kind of price drop we'll see in the existing size displays. I'd get one of the 20" in a heartbeat if it dipped below 1k.
The current Displays are in the style of the toilet seat iBook ferrkrissakes!
I think they were designed to look good alongside the pre-Quicksilver G4 tower and Cube (around 2001). They have the same expanses of clear plastic. I'm not sure where the pinstripes came from.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but when the G4 first came out in August 1999, I really don't remember it having a matching display. By that, I mean that the blueberry tripod Studio Displays were still around and sold in the catalogs at the same time.
I remember telling people "okay, THIS is wrong...a company this concerned with style/appearance isn't going to sell this gorgeous, silver/graphite tower along with a Smurfy-looking display!"
Sure enough, those things eventually went to graphite.
Granted, they were the same displays...just colored differently.
Point is, several weird months seemed to go by that the G4 co-existed with the blue displays. Am I wrong on this? Someone check the dates.
But I could swear I'd look in the catalogs for a few months, hoping to see graphite-colored Studio Displays and it took a while before they arrived.
Maybe the same thing is happening now and there are indeed more G5-styled displays waiting in the wings?
Well, I hope they come out soon. I ordered a Radeon 9800 pro and can't use it until I get a new display. I have the old 17" crt (ADC) and the dvi-adc adapter doesn't support it. So... I'm waiting to see what Apple releases. Hopefully they'll be DVI so I won't have to buy the adapter.
Yeah, I'd love to see a standalone 1440x900 17" display from Apple...in new "aluminated" design with less wasted area around the screen area itself.
Since the displays are meant to go with the G5 and the PowerBooks, I'm hoping to see an update/redesign at SOME point. Besides, it's been YEARS at this current design. Everything else has changed so drastically over the past 3 years (the iMac, iBook and towers).
LG | Philips has announced a second-generation 23" LCD unit that will be available in Q4 of this year. If they still have the exclusive agreement with Apple for their top-end stuff, that's pretty much all you need to know. The only question is how soon. January announcement seems likely to me but maybe they'll surprise us sooner than that.
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Originally posted by coolmac
Now this is a gorgeous display
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTE...W%2fB&Dept=cpu
I would rather get the Apple 23" over that... and the Apple's costs $1000 less
Originally posted by coolmac
Now this is a gorgeous display
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTE...W%2fB&Dept=cpu
No big whoop. Apple's is designed so much better, check out the ugly "disk" at the bottom. It looks stupid. Most publications I have read say that Apple has the best displays out there, not to mention in real life they DO look sharper.
But instead of just making it smooth stainless steel, add the same cheese grater texture of the G5 (but make the holes much smaller and closer together). Keep the same easy tilt/adjust third leg at the back but somehow make it wall mountable as well.
And oh, make the 17" a widescreen.
Since the displays are meant to go with the G5 and the PowerBooks, I'm hoping to see an update/redesign at SOME point. Besides, it's been YEARS at this current design. Everything else has changed so drastically over the past 3 years (the iMac, iBook and towers).
Hope fully an Apple update will include the thinner metallic bezel, better stand and slightly higher resolution. The I'll buy one for myself.
I'm a brand new switcher w/ a maxed out 15" albook on the way. (80 gig 5400 HD, superdrive, 2 gigs ram) I'm on pins and needles to get it. The only thing that sucks is buying all new software, but I'm grinning through the pain.
Back to topic... I'm just wondering what kind of price drop we'll see in the existing size displays. I'd get one of the 20" in a heartbeat if it dipped below 1k.
The current Displays are in the style of the toilet seat iBook ferrkrissakes!
Originally posted by Peerpee
When could we be looking at new designs of Displays? Nov or Jan?
The current Displays are in the style of the toilet seat iBook ferrkrissakes!
Toilet seat iBook?
Hadn't heard of that one before...
I am guessing November. As I recall, AI noted one source saying Nov too.
Originally posted by Peerpee
The current Displays are in the style of the toilet seat iBook ferrkrissakes!
I think they were designed to look good alongside the pre-Quicksilver G4 tower and Cube (around 2001). They have the same expanses of clear plastic. I'm not sure where the pinstripes came from.
Originally posted by cubist
I'm not sure where the pinstripes came from.
OS X menu bar
I remember telling people "okay, THIS is wrong...a company this concerned with style/appearance isn't going to sell this gorgeous, silver/graphite tower along with a Smurfy-looking display!"
Sure enough, those things eventually went to graphite.
Granted, they were the same displays...just colored differently.
Point is, several weird months seemed to go by that the G4 co-existed with the blue displays. Am I wrong on this? Someone check the dates.
But I could swear I'd look in the catalogs for a few months, hoping to see graphite-colored Studio Displays and it took a while before they arrived.
Maybe the same thing is happening now and there are indeed more G5-styled displays waiting in the wings?
My luck I'll wait a bit for the new monitors, then they will come out a week after the new system is up and running.
Originally posted by pscates
Yeah, I'd love to see a standalone 1440x900 17" display from Apple...in new "aluminated" design with less wasted area around the screen area itself.
Since the displays are meant to go with the G5 and the PowerBooks, I'm hoping to see an update/redesign at SOME point. Besides, it's been YEARS at this current design. Everything else has changed so drastically over the past 3 years (the iMac, iBook and towers).
Something like this perhaps?
http://www.theapplecollection.com/de...isplay_g5.html
Originally posted by tsukurite
Something like this perhaps?
http://www.theapplecollection.com/de...isplay_g5.html
I must have this now.
Originally posted by pscates
Point is, several weird months seemed to go by that the G4 co-existed with the blue displays. Am I wrong on this? Someone check the dates.
I think you are mistaken.
I have a Yikes! machine and a graphite 15" LCD (gooseneck sytle) display that I got at the same time.
Man that was a long time ago.
I'm also working right now on a (client's) Dually G5 and getting very spoiled by the speed.
When i get this site built and hand it over to them (intranet server for them) I'm really going to miss it.