New Apple 23" monitor

[Novgrod]

For the low, low, bargain basement price of $3500, you too can own 23" of flat paneled monitor goodness. For the ridiculous, we must be crazy to offer something this cheap even though it doesn't come with the ginsu knife price of $2500 you can get 22" of flat monitor goodness.

(sorry if this is a repost; search didn't turn up anything).

23"

Anyway, I'd get one if I had a couple hundred thousand lying around and no use for it

 

[RanDum72]

WOW:Q

 

[ElFenix]

at fry's theres a samsung flat panel 22" 16:9 aspect monitor with speakers built in thats about $8000 i think. the apple is a bargain in comparison. and apple has those l33tz0rs clear harmon/kardon speaks

 

[DoOLiE11]

very nice..

but does taht 23" sucker work on a pc though

 

[ElFenix]

i'm guessing its DVI through an nvidia or ati card, i don't see whats so different. i know apple used to have its own port and you needed to use a converter.

 

[Linux23]

<< i'm guessing its DVI through an nvidia or ati card, i don't see whats so different. i know apple used to have its own port and you needed to use a converter. >>




from apple's site, it only looks like it works with the Mac's proprietary Graphics Interface.


damn you apple!

 

[fatbaby]

for $3500, why don't you get 3 17" lcds and a nice radeon glfire or other workstation graphics card?

 

[gunf1ghter]

yeah, all apple brand monitors use a propietary interface and won't work with a PC.

frankly I think that Apple loses money on these displays... so that they can try to capture some market share away from M$.

 

[LH]

There are adapters out there that allow you to use Apple's monitors with PCs.

 

[gunf1ghter]

AFAIK such a thing does not exist for using their LCD's.

Someone had a whole tech-project website going on trying to get the 22" digital cinema display working with a PC, and AFAIK they never did get it working.

 

[ShinKen]

You can hook up the apple monitor to a pc. I have a Apple Cinema Display 22" hooked up to my PC right now. Go over to Dr. Bott <www.drbott.com>, you will need the DVIator and a video card with a DVI port. It works great.

 

[Goosemaster]

<< New Apple 23" monitor >>



That sucks

I think this one is better

 

[alluu]

That thing is beautiful. I saw it hooked up to a PC at CompUsa and the display quality is uncomparable. Of course the price is too. Makes my Planar look sad

 

[rockhard]

I think Apple are losing their marbles with that price. If your going to be spending that kind of money you wouldnt begrudge spending a few hundred dollars more and getting a much larger Plasma screen that will have better contrast ratio and brightness.
I feel sorry for anyone who gets suckered into buying this.

 

[gunf1ghter]

You must be kidding... there are tons of LCD's on the market that cost more than twice what the Apple costs.

 

[rockhard]

http://www.plasma-usa.com/NEC/PlasmaSync_50PD1.html
If i were to spend that kind of money i would be happier looking at one of the above for £500 more IMO.
It only took me all of a few seconds to find a decent price for the above model.
Given a bit of time i reckon you could probably find something better for similar money.

 

[Goosemaster]

sorry, but plasma's have horrible(I mean lower) resolutions around 858x854 or something like that.

the Sun LCD I pointed out has THESE specs

24.1-Inch LCD Flat Panel Monitor

24.1-inch LCD (equivalent to 27.5" CRT)
0.27mm pixel pitch
24-bit color, 256 gray scale levels, 16.7M colors
Up to 1920x1200 @ 60Hz (16:10 aspect ratio mode)
DVI-D, 13W3, S-Video and C-Video Input connectors
Detachable Cables included:
3-meter detachable DVI-D
2-meter detachable 13W3 video
1.8-Meter detachable 13W3 to HD-15
S-Video, C-Video and USB (upstream) cables
4-port USB hub
588mm(W)x518/468mm(H)x277mm(D) w/stand
Weight: ~29.5lbs., Power ~95W









<< 1920x1200 >>

is the key

 

[Epsil0n00]

<< Go over to Dr. Bott <www.drbott.com>, you will need the DVIator and a video card with a DVI port. It works great. >>


Wow! After 4 years of working with Macs at my college's IT Helpdesk I have never seen this website! (drbott.com) They have some sweet stuff over there that I know my college IT people would love. There is a lot of crossover between Mac and PC at my school, so new devices to make that easier are always desired!

As for the 23" display, the only person I know who has one at my college is the secretary in the IT department. She uses it to be able to view all of her spreadsheets at once. HA! If only she knew what that display was capable of!