“Apple is prepping for Cinema Display refreshes for the Macworld San Francisco 2009 conference which takes place between January 5th-9th, 2009 at the Moscone Center. The new Cinema Displays are expected to incorporate LED backlights to fulfill Steve Jobs’ promise that Apple would completely eliminate flourescent-backlit displays,” Arnold Kim reports for MacRumors.
“The transition timeframe depended on ‘how fast the industry [could] transition to LED backlighting for larger displays,'” Kim reports. “While LED displays as large as 30″ are commercially available, they still appear to be cost prohibitive with Samsung’s 30″ LED display priced at $4735.”
Full article here.
When have Apple displays not been “cost prohibitive”?
@ BAC
When they cost less than displays from their REAL competitors, and not the cheap azzed one’s you buy.
Has Apple been stealthily upgrading their monitors or have they really not been updated for several years?
Their other advantage not mentioned above is that they don’t need time to warm and come to full brightness. They are on, instantly, at full brightness.
Please make them with HDMI inputs Apple!
Otherwise I’ll be going with a Dell 24″
I have a 24″ iMac and the glossy screen is fine. Maybe if I were out on the roof facing North with it, it may be a problem but that would be dumb now wouldn’t it?
Wait until Expo in 2009? That is a long time even for Apple Telephone Company. Someone needs to remind Apple that some people would like to buy new electronics for Christmas and not wait until Apple presents a month later. Waiting till January has always annoyed the hell out of me.
“Besides, “brighter, uses less electricity, last longer”, it also doesn’t have any harmful elements to the environment.”
Oh puhlease…can someone give me a single element that is harmful to the environment….I can just see the reports now…
“Oh look we exposed this element to the environment and look it is no longer there.”
Harmful elements to humans, sure.
Harmful elements to life sure.
Harmful elements to the environment….sheesh.
@Jim – the ind. V
“Amparsian”
Wow, thanks.
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Oh puhlease…can someone give me a single element that is harmful to the environment….
A critical-mass sphere of plutonium comes to mind. Kaboom.
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As for harm to living things, I believe the gist is LED-lit displays won’t have the trace mercury that fluorescent ones do. The same fluorescent technology government wants to mandate for home lighting. So much for progress….
@ hairytales
Obviously you don’t work in any sort of design application. Big monitors provide greater resolution and therefore more onscreen real estate. Just increasing the inches doesn’t make it a large screen monitor – it makes it a large screen TV.