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Apple drops its new 30 inch HD display for $3299
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clipunderground
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why can't I be rich? 
Cerebral Palsy
Banned
I'll take the 23" and a new G5 please.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Who is making the screens for Apple? They definitely don't manufacture tubes and LCDs themselves, right?
23 inch widescreens are showing up for PC's now. Apples displays can be used on a PC with a convertor box but resolutions under 800x600 may not show up depending on you gfx board. Also textmode screens wont show up either depending on your gfx board (which means no bios screen for you).
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
What is the pixel refresh?
Also, how do they get away with charging that much?
Also, how do they get away with charging that much?
Crazymoogle
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Refresh? You mean latency? Good question, and I'm sure Apple would rather not answer it.
As for the price, LCDs get exponentially expensive based on size, so the pricetag isn't surprising. The failure rates at the factory are probably enormous. More important is the fact that the screen requires two inputs in order to work - if you don't have a dual DVI Card, you're hosed.
As for the price, LCDs get exponentially expensive based on size, so the pricetag isn't surprising. The failure rates at the factory are probably enormous. More important is the fact that the screen requires two inputs in order to work - if you don't have a dual DVI Card, you're hosed.
MrPing1000
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Thats a lot of inches
Chopin Trusty Balls
First casualty in the war on idioticy.
3300 is a very fair price when consider what you get,there are Flat plasma TVs for 9999 only slightly bigger
SteveMeister
Hang out with Steve.
Apple's older displays used a proprietary connector called Apple Display Connector (ADC). This cable included a DVI video signal, power, and USB 1.0. To connect them to a PC, you needed an ADC to DVI converter.
The new displays have a special cable that splits at the end into standard DVI, USB 2.0, and Firewire cables to be connected to any PC or Mac, and the monitors all have two USB 2.0 and two Firewire ports on them.
The 30" monitor requires TWO DVI CONNECTORS. So currently the only card that supports it (for Macs anyway) is the GeForce 6800, which Apple sells for $599. I don't think the 30" monitor will work with two separate cards -- it has to have two DVI connectors on the single card.
The new displays have a special cable that splits at the end into standard DVI, USB 2.0, and Firewire cables to be connected to any PC or Mac, and the monitors all have two USB 2.0 and two Firewire ports on them.
The 30" monitor requires TWO DVI CONNECTORS. So currently the only card that supports it (for Macs anyway) is the GeForce 6800, which Apple sells for $599. I don't think the 30" monitor will work with two separate cards -- it has to have two DVI connectors on the single card.
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
This LCD or a plasma? If it's an LCD, I want to know the pixel response time.
SteveMeister
Hang out with Steve.
SteveMeister
Hang out with Steve.
scola said:
You absolutely do need dual DVI to run the 30" monitor. Click the link in my post above.
Idle Will Kill
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scola said:
Well, you are wrong.
You need the graphics card that has dual DVI on it.
If you want two 30" Cinema Displays, you need DUAL dual DVI.
SteveMeister
Hang out with Steve.
scola said:Ah I see it is a single cable on a card that supports the "dual link" digital signal standard. That is where I was confusing things. Could that be a more ambiguous name
Yeah, it's basically dual monitors on one monitor
Of course 2560 x 1600 is an insanely huge number of pixels, so I guess it's not that surprising!
SteveMeister said:
Which brings up the question--do we yet have manufacturing technology that prevents dead pixels reliably enough to make purchasing one of these low-risk? Because even if there are over four million pixels in each display, if I were to pay $3,000+ for one of these, I wouldn't want a single dead one. (Well, maybe I'd tolerate one, in a corner somewhere.)
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
This is just an LCD. The native resolution is what it will look best with. Anything else will not look so good.
Too pricey for a 30" LCD. That's Apple for you.
Too pricey for a 30" LCD. That's Apple for you.
Escape Goat
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Awesome, its finally affordable.
Idle Will Kill
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SteveMeister
Hang out with Steve.
That's just insane... totally insane
Smiles and Cries
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Idle Will Kill said:
cries and runs away
cvkpaladin
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Do you really need a Power Mac G5 to use this monitor? What if I had a PC with an Nvidia 6800 Ultra, could I use that as well?
Smiles and Cries
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some day I will have that!
oh yes I will own teh DUAL SCREENZ
oh yes I will own teh DUAL SCREENZ
Christoff Yurievich
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at that price I bet they fired the guy that dropped it.
What? you were all thinking the same stupid joke.
Crazymoogle
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cvkpaladin said:
Not likely. According to the specs, this 6800 model used is a new and possibly exclusive variant that uses dual link (probably double bandwidth) DVI ports. The monitor itself only has one DVI plug - allowing the 6800 to run 2x 30" monitors - but each DVI port must be dual-link compatible to handle the extra resolution.
This dual link standard sort of took me by surprise. I'm wondering if this is just an adaptation of DVI-HD. We've seen an a special order curve monitor that is 40+ inches that needs 4 DVI ports to run - I wonder if that was a DL DVI device, or just a 4x DVI device.
Christoff Yurievich
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akascream said:Apple who?
Holy.
Shit.
Idle Will Kill
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I think I read somewhere that the go-l.com site is fake. Has anyone actually ordered something from them before?
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