Apple LED Cinema Display - Apple Store (U.S.)“Apple’s new 24-inch Cinema Display has shipped, and arrived this afternoon. While we have only had about an hour to test it out so far, we’re quite pleased. It should be noted that this new display only supports Apple’s mini-DisplayPort connector, and therefore you must be in possession of a similarly equipped Apple machine (unibody MacBook or MacBook Pro, or new Air),” Clint Ecker reports for Ars Technica.

“The real nicety of the display is that Mac OS X knows when you have attached the display to use its integrated devices. That is, when you’ve hooked it all up, it will use the iSight in the display instead of the notebook’s, and it will use the USB audio on the display and disable the output on the notebook. That is, until you plug a set of headphones into the port on the notebook, at which time the display’s speakers will disable and route the audio directly to your ears automatically,” Ecker reports.

Full report, with many photos, here.

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