Apple has removed Cinema Displays from the front page of Apple Store Online.
However, you can still find the CInema Displays by clicking on “Accessories” and then “Displays.”
Jason O’Grady blogs for ZDNet, “Non-conspiracists will maintain that Apple did it to make room for the Christmas items that they’re featuring, but I’m not buying… Apple’s current Cinema Displays were released at WWDC in June 2004 and three and a half years is an eternity in consumer electronics.”
O’Grady writes, “Apple’s new Cinema Displays will most likely feature LED backlighting, an HDMI port, a built-in iSight camera and a new industrial design. If they only come with a glossy finish, look for a boycott and protest–at least from me. New Cinema Displays will most likely get unveiled at Macworld Expo on 15 January 2008.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Too Hot!” for the heads up.]
“Apple has removed Cinema Displays from the front page of Apple Store Online. You can still find the CInema Displays by clicking on ‘Accessories’ and then ‘Displays.'”
No big deal – it’s been like that for quite some time now.
I hate it when people say that the Apple displays are over-priced. Apple displays are some of the lowest cost 8 bit D-grade LCD panels on the market. More accurate than Dell or Samsung displays. And studios don’t buy these, they buy Ezios which run circles around the Apple displays. For the typical consumer, the display quality is not needed. But then again, these displays aren’t design for the typical consumer.
Apple’s design workflow:
Average joe consumer: iMac with integrated display
Less fortunate consumer: Mac mini to be used with your existing
display
Professional user: $2500+ (emphasis on plus, my last system was eight grand) Mac pro with one or two $1800 displays.
Only professionals need the Apple displays and an iMac is the design solution for everyone else.