Apple Cinema 20" Flat-Panel Display

Manufacturer: Apple Computer Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price:$599.99 Our Price:$599.99 Features: 1,680 x 1,050 optimal resolution, 16.7 million colors 400:1 contrast ratio, 0.258 mm dot pitch 16 ms response time; DVI, Firewire and USB 2.0 connections 170-degree viewing angles 1-year warranty covers parts, labor and backlight Description:

Reviews:

I would not buy it again
I own two of these. First one for more than three years and another one is one year younger. Apple positions these as pro level monitor with superb tech specks and capable of great color accuracy. While the monitors are esthetically pleasing, the technical capacity is very low, color calibration is very difficult as two monitors exhibit very different color casts and brithness.
Even pro level calibration set could not eliminate it completely and it needs to be recalibrated very often.
The monitors are terribly SLOW with 14 ms times and not even in the league to compete in pro level status with today alternatives as fast as 2-4 ms.
The monitors are horribly overpriced, for the price of one you can buy TWO monitors of better quality and serviceability.
The monitors do not have VESA mount adapter (required for arm or wall mounting) and Apple wants to rob you of additional $30 for plain piece of metal. This mount is a standard feature of any, even cheapest, LCD monitors these days. And it makes the monitor even less attractive and more expensive.
If you were not fortunate to purchase monitor exchange warranty (highly recommended, Compusa, Staples other offer it) and if this thing in one year fails it will be cheaper to buy a new one than fix an old one.
Overall, my point is: it is a fine monitor for general computing and if you are willing to pay extra for its appearance it is fine. However if any color or movement sensitive considerations in the terms of pro-level work flow it is not one would put on my list.
For the money there are MUCH BETTER alternatives.


Bright and huge!
This exposure is not only pleasant to watch but it supplies the excellent quality of the image. It supplies to a cutting image the luminous and rich colors. And it is formed of 20"è wide for that what. I have not found defects in mines. Benchè could be more little expensive, is worthy the $600 that I have spold on it.


Very Pleased
This monitor is a perfect fit for my new MacPro 2.66GHz Computer.
I cannot find any missing pixels...brightness and color are great.
Only blemish is a small spot on the lower front of the aluminum frame
where the anodizing failed to cover the spot.


Gorgeous display now at a reduced price
Recently, my wife and I each upgraded our venerable Sony Trinitron CRT displays to widescreen Viewsonic LCD displays. The major reason we bought new displays was their large size and widescreen aspect ratio which provides plenty of desktop space and obviates the need for scrolling when working with wide applications, which are becoming fairly common these days. When we chose our ViewSonic displays we both really wanted this 20" Apple display which had the best picture of all the displays we viewed. We didn't buy this Apple display because, at that time, it was too high priced for our budget. But now Apple has reduced the price of this outstanding display, and it now clearly is the best choice in a 20" widescreen LCD display. Maybe my wife and I should consider selling our very good ViewSonic displays and replacing them with this topnotch Apple model which we bother admire so thoroughly. If you are looking for a widescreen LCD display please check out this gorgeous Apple display whether you use a PC or a Mac.


Awesome display
This is an amazing display. The only reason why I give it 4 stars is because of the price. I think that its definitely worth it though. I could've gotten a display for less but I wanted it to match my macbook pro. The amount of real estate on it is incredible. It's also extremely bright, my eyes are still having to adjust to that when the display is on. All in all, apple does it again. The only thing is I hope they don't update it soon cuz i Just got it.


Use a PC? Beware. Apple's attempt to 'reach out' is non-existent
I know that this video is advanced part of the line (an other marks moreover noma large uses the same panel S-IPS... but that one marks seems to have many more claims of the defects in spite of being half of prices... the electronics is not the same one of the real panel...) Of new to the panel in if: The used panel is a drool-worthy step of the dot of the 0258, true beam formidable 8-bit and of observation and perfects for the uses of the diagrams (benchè the colors would not have to observe as they are 3D poichè some critics us ' on the claim of the clean places, that it is an undesirable distortion and planners of diagrams usually wish the consistency and the exactitude. Therefore make the their customers. That leads in mine gripe that hour adumbrate on:) Large mine gripe it is the expected support of the PC, of which it obtains 4 battered stars outside. Pre-ordered one of these and then I have made a sure search while I have had to wait for a day it in order to arrive. Happy I have had and to align I wish that I could maintain the video; They have been paved from the relative quality and spec.. The orificii of the USB they will not work to a Fine PC from me, I do not take care myself for the orificii of the USB on a video. Some will, of way that a warning if a PC used That what is importunato with is the lack of driver of the ICM and of i INF of Windows. That one is outrageous. Particularly for the Marches of the Apple of claims of compatibility of the PC and prices. That means a sure additional gauging of color is going must be carried out and the final result is going to be an approximation (is watched from if anyone it says that the colors nearly seem 3D. That one is not always more...). Apple must know more best than this; anyone in the professional diagrams more high or (of the half of-extremity) cannot be deposited for "the approximations". Effectively, because Apple does not have nothing on the relative Web site and attitudes from people on their own tribune of argument that ago Linux the zealots to come through like angels heavenly through the comparison, it must be resorted to freeware (that it is currently to version 0,4!) to use the video as it is not some regulations here to find on the frame of the Apple, less than brightness and feeding. Sbadiglio. An other giocattolo. They would have previewed even driver symbolic of Windows, but when many critics have said that "he obtains freeware to us, here are driver of supplied Windows", that he is affinchè me enough avoided. Hour some fans del Apple could say "the customer dell' have have it Windoze, suppliers del produced del PC are making this to we for the ages in way from obtain used to it." I say well in the return ", those driver of device are not regarding every shading like the equivalent of the PC, but to at least they assign the low functionality you and a driver when they say it he is mac compatible! The own actions of the Apple are showing the contrary poichè not are driver of Windows at all." Touche. Therefore I have given back it. I have not wished to pay one apr-scato it of 15% I replace the tax in warehouse for that you had to repair with and that you could or that you could not be satisfied with to the end. And, I cannot allow the cost of new mac of which spec. little means would bind together my running PC (that cost me a lot for the same amount of feeding, particularly when it is repurchasing only the members of the Intel, that it is ridiculous.) Spiacente to be therefore negative poichè us must mólto LOVE approximately this video, but those in the majority position it would not make more best in order to win you are converted to align catching up outside they. If you are a customer of the mac, goes for it. Apple knows to make the video formidable. If you are a customer of the PC, it will work - it does not preview the satisfaction moment, the orificii hardly of the USB, or Windows that it says to you that what marks it of the video is. Card of the ___________"is satisfied with" the video disowned on the video that using the regulations of color of defect VESA. That one is po' rischiosi customers and of the mac on that tribune of the Apple it even dictates for being prudent for therefore expensive article... and that one is enough good for me. I will add this: A guarantee from 1 year is unacceptable, without R-with regard to marks. I support always the purchase of the extended guarantee, but a guarantee from 1 year is the sense of the supplier to say the consumer "who difettiamo of the faith in our product" and/or "if there is a problem, we wish them to the pony in on for our defective design".


Best of the best



Beautiful Display
Apple displays are synonymous with quality. This high quality LCD display is really just about everything you could ever want in an LCD monitor.

Now if only Apple would put down the crack pipe and lower the prices a bit....


updated from a 17" CRT and wanted something to match iMac 20"
when I have bought without warning mine iMac w/20 "LCD of the Intel all otherwise has seemed with acute in the comparison. This Apple 20"è much neighbor in spec. to my screen of iMac 20". I placed to you as the buy better they do not have good 20 quality "LCDs within anchor. Wished the profile 16x9 moreover, the sembr normal of the LCDs square dorky in the comparison and typically you have lower brightness and contrapponete the relationships. Newest roba it is much luminous and clear one. Obvious when it has gone to a warehouse and watched the screen of the LCD. The $200 LCDs little expensive hardly do not seem good regarding the new one roba. Screen of the iMac of the Intel: time of reaction of contrast 14ms of Apple 20"lcd 1680x1050 250 cd/m2 400:1 of relationship of contrast of 1680x1050 280 cd/m2 (brightness in the feeding of candle) 800:1 (www.apple.com/displays/specs.html) others comparables: $599 gateways 21"1680x1050 a Dell contrast of 300 cd/m2 1000:1 24" contrast that of cd/m2 1000:1 of 2405FPW $800 1920 x 1200 500 you would have to aim at least at cd/m2 on 300 brightness and neighbor to 1000:1 contrast. This Apple LCDs has been outside for for a po' and is beginning to show their age regarding the products brandnew that they have begun as soon as to exit. If been using your LCD for a TV you can need the brightness, but for the job of the calculating mac the 20"lcd is right approximately the right. I have paid some $$$>more ($750 price total) Apple LCD, but I think that I have made the purchase correct. As soon as I have not appreciate the sense the others observed and it has had to seem good against mine iMac. I really appreciate this screen better than that one on on mine iMac and it seems hardly as luminous even if spec. they say that it is not. Amazon moreover inscato it the shipment (beyond to the box it of the Apple) so as to your screen would have to arrive intact.


Excellent display! (5 stars if you have Apple computer)
Even if other exposures are some on the market that use the same screen of the LCD and more little expensive are sold, still really appreciate my exposure of the Apple. I have had in order nearly a year and observes much pleasant one. The aluminum edges round off to you on the high and on the bottom of the exposure they have it one sensibility of the passing, so as to species of mixtures in the atmosphere. And when been watching a film or hardly writing something to machine (as a review of the amazon) you see the screen hardly and not the exposure in if. The exposures of black are much intrusive in my opinion. SONY and some other companies have made recently these flat exposures with the highly reflecting covering on the screen, still more reflecting that the video of glass of to cathodic tube! Honestly I do not have idea that what their problem was but those are a lot horrible to use. You see not only your own reflection, but moreover the light from the windows and the lamps reflects all. This exposure of the Apple has factor much bottom of reflection. I have windows from the side and the solar light has used to be a lot annoying (when I have had video of to cathodic tube) also with the blind people down that still I have had to put some I cover over the windows. But hour the sun troublesome more and the nobody do not make the lamp me. I will not say a lot approximately the colors, the brightness and the quality of the exposure of the LCD in if, but that it is better that has seen up to now! Therefore why I have given 4 stars rather than 5? For following the 2 reasons! (if you have Apple calculating This not it will apply to you) 1) this video is identified for the systems of Windows and of the Apple but not driver they are supplied for the windows (I have XP). When I have coupled it until my calculating I could not regulate the maximum resolution (the option for 1680 x 1050 was right not here). But then I have modernized to mine driver of the video card (Radeon 9600) to those last ones, 1680 x the 1050 have been transformati in in an option and I have regulated it. BUT! To constitute a bottom for towards the outside approximately this has taken a sure search, could' ve be easy evitabile if the driver of the video they were supplied! 2) also after that modernized to yours driver of the video card, the video still reveals like "generic" under the windows. Some really say that this not cause a problem that is not to align however. In the first place, the video has orificii of firewire and of the USB on the posterior part and even if the orificii of the USB they seem to work (I has not examined firewire) in order to reveal like "" in the responsible and this of late device it cannot too much be good so as to you could obtain more a problem with determines to you dispositi you of USB/Firewire. Hour that "a possible" problem, but a problem that real I have had was with the arrest of the video. When you interrupt your calculating the video must also interrupt, than what you would happen enough frequently was that one after that interrupted video PC still has been over. And the key of feeding from the side of the video would not even extinguish it! In order to close it down, you have had to crawl under my scrittorio and to d3connecter them from the feeding taken one and to plug them behind within. This sequence would restore something and hour the key of feeding on the video could still work in order to close it down. Hour I have begun to think that this had to be a problem of the implantations and a support of customer called of the Apple that moreover have thought therefore and suggested me in order to take the video to the repair center. I have not really wished to make that one, so as to I have given the search of an other I have talked nonsense. I have thought that perhaps it was the problem with the driver. I really do not have uncovered that anyone points out this particular problem but this time I have found that approximately recently it has freed the driver for this video! I say approximately because it is not freed from Apple. A sure pleasant person has written it for FREE. Yeah, really puts Apple to shame! After it I debit therefore a lot this video could not spend the little moneies for some driver... The approval hour that I have obtained that one outside my case, little the program of usefullness is called WinACD. After the installation it, the video is recognized from Windows like exposure of the cinematografo and when the property released you can even see some options. Moreover orificii and the video is recognized in the device responsible. The problem with my video that does not close down moreover has gone via. You can transfer the last version from the system centers them towards the satellites of this driver free here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/winacd in a generalized manner they are a lot pleased with this video, however an angry small to Apple in order rather the tear me outside on the service and the price.


Beautiful! A Vision!... an APPLE!
I have to say, this is a beautiful monitor. I already own a 23" Apple Flat Panel as well--and have never had any issues with it--I use it on my Dual 2.5 G5 PowerMac.

But what I needed was a good monitor for my stupid Sony VAIO PC that my company forces me to use. My company is very solid about not wanting to purchase any Apple products, but I asked for (and got) this 20" Apple Monitor to replace my existing so-called 17" Sony Monitor--it's really only a 15" with two extra inches of casing around the screen (at least it seems that way).

What a joy! This monitor totally kills the Sony display... and tears up ANY Dell monitor I have ever used. This, for the money, is well worth purchasing.

This clinches it... I WILL NEVER ENDORSE, CONDONE THE USE OF, or SELL ANYONE on PC hardware. Buy APPLE, you will love yourself for it!


Great display, but look out for Amazon's shipping
This is a great display, if you own one you will love it. BUT, Amazon doesn't seem to have a box that it will fit in securely for shipping. I received my original order, the box was completely destroyed and the screen was damaged due to being thrown around in shipping. The second display I received had been treated even more brutally, and I had to return it as well. I ended up getting a refund, because I don't want to keep dealing with this. Don't let this review stop you from buying an excellent display, but be careful how you ship it. I recommend you choose overnight shipping so it doesn't get tossed around for 4 days in the shipping process. Sure it might be 30 dollars more, but you are already spending 700+ on a monitor so the 30 dollars to ensure it gets to you safely won't hurt too bad.


A solid display that compliments any computer



Gorgeous Display!
Hour I have had my exposure of the cinematografo of 20"Apple for 8 months. This video is all one could hope for. Higher quality. Appeal of the eye more! The greater sense of looks on your scrittorio that it makes in the warehouse. Nearly they have gone for the 23"unit. Happy not. This great exposure teamed with the PowerMac G5 that double 2 gigahertz if they delight it every time that I am based down to it! I do not see that improvement anyone could wish.....


Watch out for bad pixels!
LCD monitors inherently can be manufactured such that they end up with a few dead/bad pixels. This shows up as a colored dot on the monitor when certain colors are displayed. Apple needs to do the right thing and take a stand on quality control. Samsung has recently adopted a 'no bad pixel' policy on their monitors and Apple should do the same.

Apple's policy is that it's not considered a defective monitor unless there are 5 ore more bad pixels or a cluster of 3 or more clumped together. Apple states that out of the millions of pixels that high resolution monitors have, a few dead bad ones isn't considered a problem. This policy is not fair when such a large number of these Apple monitors do actually make it to the retail stores with bad pixels. The first one I received had a bad pixel that was visible all the time and the replacement also has 2 bad pixels that are visible sometimes, when certain dark colors are being displayed. I was told point blank by the Apple Store that I would not be able to return it again, without paying an exhorbitant 10% restocking fee.

While the monitor is beautiful in case, design and quality of the overall picture, the pixel issue is a serious issue for me. I feel it's unfair that I have to pay so much for a monitor that contains visible defects. And while I'm living with the bad pixels right now and don't notice them all the time, it still bothers me that Apple doesn't step up and do the right thing, especially on such an expensive item.


very impressed
They have been given to the defective reviews a lot of 24"ed 20" has had reviews raving. while the screen is the same one of the video of the dell, if you are interested in the aesthetic one of a place, desires to use the video with a PC and to enjoy the designs polishes, this is a buy expensive but good.


Amazing Monitor!
Until recently I'd been working with the 17" Apple Studio Display, the beautiful companion to an equally stunning Cube. But demands of my work as a photographer necessitated upgrading to a Powermac G5. I continued to use the CRT monitor, convinced as have been most graphics professionals, that LCD monitors just don't cut it. The opportunity came to sell both the Cube and Apple Studio Display at a fair price, which left me with the decision of how best to replace the monitor. Prices have been coming down for the Apple Cinema Display and from what I'd read, they're more than a pretty piece of hardware.

I've been using the 20" model for a couple of weeks and have to say it is both gorgeous to look at on my desk, and pure pleasure to work with as I prepare images for publication. I'm both surprised and delighted to say I don't miss my old monitor at all. Colors are rendered beautifully and I have plenty of real estate within which to work in Photoshop. I have space for palettes as well as a good size version of an image. I can't comment on reduced eye strain, but I'm happy to know there is no flicker in this screen and I have an unquantifiable sense that my eyes are more relaxed after a few hours in front of this beauty. Apple scored big time with these monitors, especially at the current pricing structure.

You may be able to buy an LCD cheaper, but check the specs and look closely at the product before you buy. It is rare to find a product that is truly comparable in terms both of performance and appearance. Treat yourself!


Pricey but beautiful..
First things first: the 20" Apple Cinema uses the same panel as the Dell Ultrasharp 2005FPW. I paid less than retail for the Cinema due to a coupon and another discount but regardless, the price was almost twice what the Dell cost (if caught during one of Dell's frequent sales or from a third party reseller). I repeat: the Dell and Apple use the SAME Philips panel. So why buy the Apple? I like the brushed aluminum case, stand and clean look. Frivolous but for something I have to look at every day, I find it important to have something that's pleasing to the eye. And please it does. It is truly a work of art that wouldn't be out of place in the Guggenheim. The resolution and response times are outstanding. Video is smooth with no noticeable artifacts. The display is very bright and has good off angle viewing. Using it in daylight with the windows open isn't a problem. The widescreen makes viewing and editing documents side by side easy. Did I mention bright? Bottom line, this is an outstanding display. The 20" widescreen is a good compromise between smaller 17"-19" displays and the almost too large 23"-24" screens. Larger is usually better for movies and television but for the desktop, I find the 23" and up a little too big. A best buy this isn't but a frivolous purchase once in a while won't kill you.


A Stunning display
That is the visual display unit of the computer that by far better it has never seen in my transaction of 22 years with the computers. The design of the exposure is only sbalorditivo - it is a jewel on your table or your wall. It is luminous (also to the complete solar light of half of day), it is croccante, the colors are alive/fantastic and are much easy one on the eyes. More best is not only advanced to all the LCD ch' has seen end here but moreover than any to cathodic tube I it has never watched (numerous - credilo, comprised all the kind of Mitsubishi, of SONY etc). Truely is excited approximately this video. On purpose, the DVD films seem large on it also! Worthy bond the moneies. They will render them happy. Applauses.


20" with a PC/DVI
After several months to debate if or of it it has not been worth the moneies, finally I have bought one of these children. I have hesitated for therefore long because of the price. They have come close to order 21"Samsung the several times but really I have wished the W. After to have seen in the Apple memorizza several times, I really it has wished but $1300 were a great piece of change. Then when the fallen price to inferior $1000 ch' I have given within. In a generalized manner, it is an impressive exposure. I am making it to work with a PC on measure being used a ATI 9700 for w/DVI outside. Initially I could not convince the thing in order to work at all to resolution born them and any other search would supply turns out to you disowned. Finally, I have uncovered that something was wrong with mine driver of the exposure and have eliminated the windows simply and I have begun over from zero (had been the meant one in order to make it however and I have modernized the HD at the same time). After that one, it has worked like a champ. No problems any. Only taken mine are the incompatibilità with XP and the ship-boy of the USB in the exposure. That is a sink knows that the problem with the PC and the Apple does not seem to preoccuparsi. Moreover, the only commandos who hard of the key you obtain are brightness and contrast. No other recordings of the screen with the PC. I do not have really need at all since the exposure has turned out to be much intelligent one when it reorganizes the different searches of the screen and can use the driver of ATI in order to record the things like the temperature of color and the range. Other then that it is a fantastic exposure for the price.


Apple Cinema 20" Display
I bought a G-5 last summer and was using a 17" PC monitor for months with it. Let me say that the monitor is more important than I thought! I am a graphic designer/artist that works on the computer most of the day. If you are using a computer as a professional and especially a graphic person PLEASE CONSIDER THIS FOR YOURSELF!!!!! I also talked my boss into getting me one at work ... so I have one at the office and at home.

The graphics are so crisp and clear! The wide format which allows you to have all your pallets and toolbars open and still have a two page spread open with NO overlap! This is worth the cash in it's self. It is a lot easier on the eyes than a CRT.

The only downside to it is there is a little banding on it when viewing a DVD movie, or a heavy video game... but mine is used 95% work and internet so I don't care.

GET ONE!


Apple Cinema Display gives you full computing experience...
There was a period that I have not studied the possibility never to buy an exposure of the Apple. I have calculated the costs of mac enough the moneies, without to spend $1000, or more, on an exposure. Towards the end of January of 2005, I have bought the newest gigahertz G4 than inch 1,5 of Powerbook G4 12, with superdrive. The note-book has had nearly all the performances was trying and the small factor of the shape easy allows that the transports around to the house, or the world me if I never obtain to travel correctly. However, I have wished more from mine that Powerbook, when to my scrittorio. Yes, already I was using my Powerbook with an external exposure. It was a SONY analog LCD. However, it was only 15 inches, with a resolution of 1024x768, so as to really I have had like little real estate of the screen on my external exposure, like I have had on the exposure incorporated from 12 inches. I have wished more. After to have determined the 17 inches the LCD would not be enough, I have ordered the exposure of the cinematografo of 20"del Apple and I am happy I have made. Unfortunately, the box it has arrived has struck - in on and there was uniform soil to the inside. However, all inner part has seemed to work well, thankfully. Packed the exposure of the cinematografo it was not a joy and I was yearning to put it on my scrittorio. The design of this exposure is sbalorditivo. The recinzione of the aluminum will satisfy the eyes of anyone and the posterior part of the exposure is like beautiful, if not beautifulr of the front part. There is a single cable that comes from the posterior part of the exposure, that it passes tidily with an opening on the base of the aluminum. This single cable cracks to the end in firewire, the USB, DVI and a connector of feeding that inserted the mattone of feeding. I have connected firewire, the USB and the DVI to my Powerbook and then I have connected the feeding to the exposure. Distortion of speed. It was perfect from the box it. I could never not obtain the right of color profile on my old external exposure, but the exposure of the cinematografo was from the box it the exposure that beautifulr I had never used. The brightness was exceptional and it has occorr some days to me affinchè obtained used to the brightness. Yes, you can lower the brightness with the tolerance of yours barretta over the hard-sensitive keys specializes to you from the part of right of the exposure, but I loved the look apieno-brightness. My experience of calculation has been to an other level, since the exposure of the cinematografo has arrived. If I am passing in review the fotoricettore, working in Photoshop and the iPhoto, or making a film in the iMovie, the exposure of the cinematografo of 20"e in the relative resolution 1680x1050 is one joy to use. The exposure to moreover directly gives two me of firewire two and the USB orificii behind the panel, that he is incredibly convenient. If you are a gamer, than they are not, you will appreciate the answer 16ms offered of this exposure. Yes, your calculating makes all the job hard, but it is your exposure you interatti to you with. A great exposure as the exposure of the cinematografo of the Apple allows that you obtain made, with little job and effort. As an example, you do not have to calculate towards the outside like measure all your range of colors of Photoshop on the screen, since there is abundance of room. DVDs is the experience enough on this exposure pure. I have cracked in Shrek 2 and have been astonished from the images, but DVDs is far away from the only reason that you would have to wish to widescreen. Widescreen the function of this exposure allows that you work in the sense our minds are planned and used to the operation. We have read from left to right, so as to an exposure that is wider than it we are that sense a lot of long Marches. In a generalized manner, if you wanted to save the sure moneies, there are other exposures outside here. Dell really offers to the 20 inches widescreen the exposure, that it compares pleasantly to this, input even additional of support. However, difetta of something. Difetta of the beauty in the design that the exposure of the cinematografo of the Apple offers and probably difetta of some of the quality control that Apple is strained hard to realize. As an example, Apple could refuse some of the panels that use the inner part of this exposure, if the quality worries think suspicion, where other produce can use all the panel are supplied with, without to spend the moment and the moneies to assess a quality panel. If you believe you would want to spend the sure moneies on a fantastic exposure in order to use with your Powerbook, PowerMac, or PC of the DVI-escape, then you would not have passages - in on this beauty. It is to align a part of the art from a point of view of aesthetic and the images that it visualizes are spectacular. This exposure will not be similar yesterday to exposure "" anytime soon. In fact, it is a pleasure to enjoy an exposure that it does not observe as it would have to make part of an office occupied and crammed of. This exposure stilla the beauty and the tolerance and the images of reservoir of the Apple do not make it justice. The exposure of the cinematografo of the Apple gives the complete experience to you of calculation.


excellent
Recently I have bought this video for use with mine 12 inches Powerbook G4. Ché incredible combination! The exposure of the cinematografo offers the clarity, the brightness and "the friabilità unbelievable." The Powerbook the guide without the difficulty. The exposure makes to slide very uniform around on the scrittorio, so as to I can move it removed when I am not using it. Expensive, yes, but if been using yours mac in order to make the moneies, it is good worthy it in the improved rendering!


Amazing image quality - worth it with the price drop
I have bought the model of 20"dopo to have watched many other options to along. When Apple finally has fallen the price from $1299 to $999 has been transformato in in no-brainer. It is hard to find the video that it binds together the quality of image and the facility of the putting to point (particularly on a mac). I love constructed in firewire and the ship-boy of the USB and the pure aluminum case are planned in beautiful way. It is melted literally in the wall in my study with the relative diminished design and I think hardly like the librazione of images in half of air. I have said I have watched other video, but they were all one heads too much clunky and refined in it is not qualities of the image that plan in order not a lot less or even more moneies to times.


great product
the video of apples always has between the better thing. The greater part of the skimp of people outside on the video and thinks that they are sly planner of the asa I can dirvi, the matter of the screen the video is that what real interface with, not the calculating and if you been observing a little expensive exposure and fioca for 8 hours a day for 8 years, did not conserve nothing. I have bought this after that mine trinitron of the SONY of the apple of 17"morisse after 8 years that of service. They are a graphical planner and this screen is perfect for my needs the brightness and the color exactitude is superb and in compliance with my tolerances. (I have need of the tests any thing the screen I use for the materials of the press) the industrial engineering and the small press of the foot on the scrittorio is moreover more reeks than quality. more my first LCD, that one was my video has not had pixel out of order this being was one great worry for me.


Beautiful - Limited Functionality on PC
Recently I have said good bye to my video of to cathodic tube of Viewsonic of the 55 pounds making the room - and one justification, for the exposure of the cinematografo of Apple 20. For they are poichè you would preview: beautiful design, excellent quality of color and convenient connections of usb/firewire. Like with Apple, against he is moreover reasonably expectable: once that you obtain beyond the impressionabile experience in purchase and installation of the video you render account that this is an expensive product with limited functionality and one mediocre guarantee. Famous disappointing and a reason for my appraisal 4-star, is that the brightness commandos do not work to a PC of Windows. To leave from the today, (11/26/04) not are driver available to make to work this characteristic. Us it was not some mention of this edition on the Web site of the Apple or from the staff of the warehouse of the Apple. Customers of the PC - assured to you to realize this limitation. He does not have effect on the quality of image, but he limits the ability to record your video. Sidenote: My calculating comes to contact of all the spec. demanded as listed from Apple - Windows.xp for, with a video card of Radeon X300 that has DVI and DDC. Therefore technically, the video commandos would have to work.


Best LCD on the Market
I just purchased the 20" Cinema display and right out of the box this thing was amazing. Zero setup (with the G5) was needed. Just plugged in the only cable coming out of the back. This cable split int the power, DVI, USB, and FireWire. Great design. Then I booted the computer and WOW. The picture quailty was so crisp and pure. It was an obviously upgrade from the 17" CRT I've had for 4+ years. The only slight downside was the price. If you're a student or educator, you can get this monitor for $1169 + tax, so it's about the same depending on your tax rate. Perfect companion to the G5 aluminum look!


Excellent monitor, but EXPENSIVE
I'm a relatively new convert to the Mac scene having just purchased my G5 a couple of months ago. Along with it I purchased this monitor to experience the full Mac-Attack. I have not been dissapointed. I could rave on endlessly about the G5, but we're talking about the monitor here.
The monitor makes a very nice match to the G5 with its faux brushed aluminum surround and 'real' brushed aluminum stand. Quality is absolutely outstanding in both build, finish and, most importantly, display. It takes up about as little desk space as a 20" monitor possibly could without using a VESA mounting arm.
One caveat is that if you're not using a DVI card, you'll have to buy one (a worthy investment anyway). One of the nicest things about this monitor is the Apple calling card clean lines. No analog controls or buttons mucking up the faceplate (only a power and two brightness buttons hidden on the side).
My only real problem with this monitor (and the only reason it didn't receive 5 stars) is the price. It's just very hard to justify laying out this kind of cash when you can pick up similar monitors that are extremely close in display quality for almost half the price. If you're willing to 'settle' for a 19" monitor (non-widescreen), then check out the Samsung 910t. It's available here on Amazon for $579 right now and is most excellent (I've purchased two).
In closing, I am very glad to have purchased this monitor when I bought the G5 as I really do love it, but I can't really see myself spending this kind of money after the fact. It hurts a bit less when it's a smaller percentage of the total bill... :-)



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