Apple Premieres New Cinema HD Displays

KingFishKingFish
edited July 2004 in Science & Tech
Apple Computer is introducing a new 30-inch Apple Cinema HD display, a new flat-panel screen that features 2560-by-1600 pixel resolution. The company is also rolling out new 23-inch and 20-inch displays to replace their existing flat-panel monitors.
The new displays all have the by-now familiar widescreen aspect ratio found across almost all of Apple's pro hardware line, sport dual FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 ports, and use DVI to connect to video cards instead of Apple's vaunted ADC interface--making the new monitors compatible out of the box with Power Macs, PowerBooks, and PC-compatible computers as well.
Source: PCWorld

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  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited June 2004
    taken straight from the apple homepage:

    $3,299.00

    30-inch (29.7-inch viewable)
    2560 x 1600 optimal resolution
    16.7 million colors
    DVI Display Connector
    2 port USB 2.0 Hub
    2 FireWire 400 ports

    VESA mount compatible

    Requires NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL Card

    so explain to me how this is "out of the box compatible" if it requires this one specific gfx card? if i remember correctly, this is an SLI design as well, so that card has to retail for at least $500
  • DanGDanG I AM CANADIAN Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    The card has a wholesale value of just over $800cdn, so that's probably going to put it at around $700 US retail.
    The video card issue and only firewire 400 instead of 800 makes me wonder what apple was thinking when they came up with this design. Although they have abandoned their ADC connectors on this model and gone strictly DVI.
  • DanGDanG I AM CANADIAN Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    Just got the exact info about the card needed to run one of these bad boys.
    Nvidia GeForce 6800 DDL - $770.00Cdn wholesale.
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