Show me where my lecture begins Spheric. Really, show me. Looked like personal opinion to me. Until the Chick decided I wasn't being gay enough.

Very nice displays. Now if I could land some more contract jobs...

Heh as said the aluminum enclosures wouldn't stop me from buying one. The $1999 23" is a bit overpriced (by $300) so I'd have to think long and hard about that but the 20" and 30" displays are great.

Either way it's irrelevant. I can't stick a 30" on my g4 and if I got a new powermac I'd have to stay with my 22" monitor (which is MORE than fine with me... ohhhh so much more )... on the other hand I'm thinking about a nice powerbook... preferably with a blue paintjob but I'd probably end up scratching it up

I'm really wanting that 17" pb anyway.

I left the smiley off on purpose to see what would happen, but it was there.



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Say what you will about the design; the panels themselves are fantastic.

Saw 'em at WWDC. They were so bright and clear that it looked like someone had just taken the enclosure and put plastic inlays on top of a backlight -- until someone moved the mouse and the cursor moved.

Seriously - they're the best-looking LCDs I've ever seen. And only Apple can make a 20" LCD look tiny, but comparing it to the 23" and 30", it looks insignificant.

yeah, that's the one thing - the specs are much better on the new models!

I just don't like Apple's offical display lineup starting at $1299. The rest of the market has dropped prices in the last year and a half, but Apple is still at Jan 2003 pricing. It's just making them lose more share. :/

And it's a shame! A lot of vendors were starting to support the mac again!

Well, you don't have to hook up Apple displays to 'em. Any 'ol $100 17" monitor will do in a pinch.

Apple displays are geared towards those who need the real estate and who can pay for the quality. Everyone else (ie, most of us) can be happy with our ViewSonics or Samsungs or whatever.

nothing screams early-to-mid 1970's like brushed metal.



everybody who's anybody knows copper is the style for the new millennium.

Long live plastic.

And early 90s.

And apparently mid '00s.

It may have escaped your attention that these things come in cycles.

The only thing that has been consistently OUT of style since the late 1800s has been copper.

Ok so apart for the fact that Apples are metal while evrybody elses are just silver painted plastic, there isn't really very much you can do with a flat rectangular shape that has to be highly ajustable. Ok so it looks the same as almost every flat pannel display out there (all the way from giant wall mount plasmas, down to desktop LCD's). Compaired to the rest of the market the old 'pinstripe' LCD's look bulky, the new designs at least have more ajustment and the quality of the finish and of the materials used makes them look more 'solid' than the rest.

It would be cool if the new screens (and those in the new iMacs!) eventually became "pivotable", similarly to the LaCie photonblue/photonvision ones (and some others); this could be a good thing - even if not indispensable, of course - for long document viewing/editing, DTP, etc. - similarly to the old Apple Portrait Display, BTW:

This doesn't make any sense with sizes of 20" and more!!

You could have them shaped like your field-of-view - a lozenge shape with high resolution in the centre and low resolution at the edges.

That would be completely natural to the brain - assuming you never move your head (or indeed your eyeballs).

No I haven't been drinking.

.. and more stupid than that mac above

At least some sense it does make, considering that, for example, the LaCie photon20vision is a 20" display (at the more classic 4:3 1600x1200 resolution), and is indeed pivotable. My post was also motivated by the fact that there still isn't a pivot software solution on OS X (except for the ATI VersaVision in the Radeon 9800, maybe): so it would be nice if Apple provided such a solution itself, eventually.

Not likely, anyway...

I'm just pissed I have an out-dated "Displays" menu bar icon and System Preferences icon now...this bug better be fixed in Tiger!

The image changes when you plug the new one in..

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Leaving smileys off is illegal in Germany. I'll be having words with your police, my son.

Du olle Petze !



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