“Apple’s cinema displays have always made Macintosh fans (and indeed most people with eyes) go weak at the knees. This time, though, they’ve excelled themselves with a new 30″ display that is truly beautiful,” Fraser Lovatt writes for Digital-Lifestyles.Info in a piece headlined, “Apple 30-inch Cinema Display Possibly Single Most Desirable Piece of Technology on Planet.”
“You could conceivably plug it into a PC, but that’s just wrong and you know it. At just 0.08 cents per pixel, they obviously represent fabulous value for money,” Lovatt writes.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: You can’t plug the 30-inch model into a PC. It’s Mac-only. According to Apple, “The 30-inch Cinema HD Display requires the next level of DVI connectivity – ‘dual link’ to drive the massive amount of pixels to the screen. And the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card (available from the Apple Store) delivers, with the most advanced graphics engine available. This card, designed specifically to support the dual link DVI connection, delivers 2560 by 1600 resolution. Even better, it can drive two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays, giving you the ultimate creative canvas. This card will be available for Mac only in August 2004.” The 20-inch and 23-inch models will work with PCs and Macs.
“You could conceivably plug it into a PC, but that’s just wrong and you know it…”
Quote of the day!!!!
I have a 23″ cinema display and love it. I am stationed in Germany and don’t have a TV. I use my PowerMac and the display as my DVD player, stereo, etc. and it works great.
oh yeah I forgot to say, I’m sure the 30″ is even more beautiful!
actually, you can use it on a PC…
You can get the same card in a PC version. Also, I have seen reports that the Maatrox Pirahlia may work as well…
But, I agree with the quote “that’s just wrong and you know it”
MDN, wrong point. Jobs said it was compatible with PCs as well.
Why would you even think of connecting this with a PC…do the MDN guys have a little secret??
Apple’s site says, “available for Mac only in August 2004.” If that is untrue, it’s Apples fault, not MDN’s.
http://www.apple.com/displays/specs.html
Looks like G5’s are the only computer that can use the 30″ displays.
I played with it at WWDC (we do software for building display profiles and I just had to make sure it worked with the display… :^). I agree, it is awesome. The neatest thing, to me. was that sitting in front of it–with my face about two feet from the screen–the display took up almost my entire field of vision.
Unfortunately, at $3898 ($3299 + 599). it’s a tad out of my price range. Actually, I’m waiting for the OLED displays–less power consumption and more accurate color across the display. When they come out with the 30″ OLED display, I am so there.
when they had them on the main page at apple before the itunes thing it said
“for mac or pc”
Jeez people!
He 20 and 23 inch will work on the PC, the 30 is Mac only.
Unless there is something that I am missing, it seems inevitable that you will eventually be able to use an Apple 30″ CD with a PC. However, my bet is that other companies will try to fill the large LCD area of the PC market, likely at lower cost. Based upon the product reviews of smaller LCD’s, though, few of the others appear to match the display quality of the LCD’s that Apple sells. I don’t know why – certainly Apple is not producing the displays. Perhaps Apple has better specs in their procurement contracts?
Bla bla. ! and the Dutch Queen Beatrix named here dog “MAC” true, ha ha !
“Based upon the product reviews of smaller LCD’s, though, few of the others appear to match the display quality of the LCD’s that Apple sells. I don’t know why – certainly Apple is not producing the displays. Perhaps Apple has better specs in their procurement contracts?”
Yes, they do. It’s also part of the reason that Apple invested in Samsung way back when–it gives them the pick of the litter for LCD displays.
As an Apple engineer put it, “Everyone else sells the displays that Apple rejects.”
It’s only a monitor, for fsck’s sake.
Mind you, my two 20″ CD’s look AWSOME and I’m not about to sell them.
“It’s only a monitor, for fsck’s sake.”
Well, yes and no. The monitor is something you spend alot of time looking at and it’s important that it be good in order to reduce eyestrain, etc.
Also, if you’re creating art on your computer, having good color reproduction is very important. Yeah, if all you’re doing is surfing the web, it isn’t as important (at least until you want to buy a yellow shirt and discover that it’s actually an orange shirt).
The monitor is dependent on the Graphics card…
All you need is a Dual-Link DVI Support.
NVIDIA’s Quadra FX 4000 card can drive the 30″ monitor on the PC.
http://nvidia.com/object/IO_11761.html
http://nvidia.com/page/qfx_uhe.html
From NVIDIA’s description of the Quadra FX 4000:
“Two dual-link DVI-I connectors, an industry first, drive multiple very high-resolution displays at up to 3840 x 2400 resolution rates, satisfying demanding medical, satellite, and geospatial imaging application requirements.”
Here is a review of the GeForce 6800 Ultra card for the PC (I don’t know if they had the dual-link DVI though).
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040414/index.html
Look at the power consumption. It requires TWO power connectors…
The price makes me queasy in the stomach.
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i think i would rather get TWO 20-inchers instead and save on some money. I would mount them side by side on the wall. Of course, I would need to replace my 466 Digital Audio. The stock card in it sucks ass. 32MB!
My wife told me size doesn’t matter. I told her I’ll get her a new pair of 38’s if I can have a new pair of 30 inchers. She agreed and I can’t wait to see her new 38’s on my new 30 inchers. Hot damn.
I’ll be getting a pair of them, along with a new 2.5 Ghz G5
don’t you wish you were me?
No, not really, I am happy with myself.
The first thing I purchased in anticipation of the switch to Mac was the 23″ CD. I used it on the PC with WinXP for about four months before purchasing the G5. Although using the 23″ (or 20″ or 30″, for that matter) with a PC didn’t seem wrong at the time, it became very, very wrong after plugging the G5 to it. I will NEVER go back!
surprised spunkdick didn’t chime in his 2 cents on this one…
It’s still more expensive per pixel and lower resolution than the T221.