Apple today unveiled the LED Cinema Display featuring a 24-inch LED-backlit widescreen display with built-in iSight video camera, mic and speakers in an elegant, thin aluminum and glass enclosure. Designed for the new MacBook family, the LED Cinema Display includes an integrated MagSafe charger, three USB 2.0 ports and the new Mini DisplayPort, making it easy for MacBook users to quickly connect and power their notebooks as well as use their favorite peripherals.
“The new LED Cinema Display is the most advanced display that Apple has ever made,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, in the press release. “It is a perfect fit for our sleek new line of aluminum MacBooks with its 24-inch LED-backlit screen, aluminum and glass enclosure, integrated camera, mic and speakers, MagSafe charger, three USB ports and Mini DisplayPort.”
The 24-inch glossy, widescreen display with 1920 x 1200 pixel resolution uses LED-backlit technology to provide instant full-screen brightness and great power efficiency. Suspended by an aluminum stand with an adjustable hinge that makes tilting the display almost effortless, the new display includes a built-in iSight video camera, mic and speakers, making it ideal for video conferencing with iChat, listening to music or watching movies. The new display also includes three self-powered USB 2.0 ports so users can simply leave their printer, camera, iPhone 3G or iPod dock connected when they take their MacBook with them. The sleek, thin display also includes a built-in universal MagSafe charger so users can conveniently leave their notebook’s MagSafe power adapter in their travel bag.
The new LED Cinema Display is the greenest Apple display ever, made with mercury-free LED technology, arsenic-free glass and highly recyclable materials. The LED Cinema Display meets stringent Energy Star 4.0 requirements and achieves EPEAT Gold status. The new display contains no brominated flame retardants, all internal cables and components are PVC-free and its foam packaging has been reduced by 44 percent.
Part of the next-generation DisplayPort industry standard, the new Mini DisplayPort delivers a pure digital signal that can drive up to a 30-inch widescreen display. The Mini DisplayPort is ultra-compact at just 10 percent the size of a full DVI connector, perfect for the sleek design of the new MacBook family. Adapters are available for using the MacBook’s Mini DisplayPort with older generation VGA, DVI/HDMI and Dual-Link DVI displays.
The new LED Cinema Display will be available in November through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of US$899. The LED Cinema Display requires a MacBook, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro with the new Mini DisplayPort.
More info about Apple’s new 24-inch LED Cinema Display here.
I can’t believe they dropped fw on the MacBooks!! This is the first event where I was genuinely disappointed! This is going to be the death of MacBook purchases for video editing at our school. bummer!!! 🙁 The cases are cool though! and I like the 24″ display too.
GLOSS. No Sale!
Hello NEC…
@Wandering joe
Do they not have FW 800 ports? There’s a fairly cheap adapter for a firewire 800 port to turn it into a FW 400.
Also, I’ve got a bit of faith in Apple, and I’d be willing to bet they know their target audience– and just how many (or how few) use firewire ports.
I finally get a Cinema Display with an iSight and an LED display — AND IT ONLY WORKS WITH NOTEBOOKS!!!???
@ brian
no FW on the new MacBook at all! How are they going to sell iLife now? Use iMovie, just without a FW camera. not a good move. I’m waiting for next rev for FW to show up again.
Seen the same question on several sites. Imagine this 24″ in two/three versions: Notebook only, DVI/Display Port Gloss and DVi/Display Port Matte. Apple’s not going to forget the MacPro users – they just have to wait for another event.
Like us MacMini lovers : (
I just need a mini DisplayPort to Mini DVI adapter so I can use this with my 24″ iMac.. sweet.
Verrry confusing. Why only glossy??? How can I connect it to a Mac Pro? Great: iSight, speakers and micro. But is it worth a price 2 to 3 times as much as other displays?
Glossy is fubar.
Does Apple understand that a big portion of their demographic uses their Pro displays for fine image and Photoshop work? Seriously. GLOSSY?
check compatibility here
http://www.apple.com/displays/specs.html
very limited
Does it support HDCP?
Can I hook it up to the Apple TV or PS3?
The link provided by MDN for additional info is down at the moment and I didn’t catch the live event. MDN coverage was brisk.
TIA.
Where did you get that they dropped FireWire??? Someone, somewhere put this in some kind of a rumour and it seems that it took of.
All Macs out there hafe FireWire. Desktop ones have both FW400 and FW800. Portable ones (except the plastic MacBook) have only WF800. Your only additional expense for hooking up MiniDV camcorder would be a FW800 to FW400 cable. You can find them on eBay for about $5 plus shipping.
Duh. I got myself a Cinema 30′ some 6 months ago and for some reason my display feels even better now. I really hope that someone soon tells Jobs how much glossy displays really suck if you’re working with colours.
NO FIREWIRE! GLOSSY ONLY! AND NO MEMORY BUMP ABOVE 4GIG! You might as well stick to the $999 MacBook, it will do 95%+ of the job for lots less.
– the new Books are really attractive however…. and what’s with this new port on displays?
Predrag
http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html
do they make an ethernet to Firewire adapter?
Hurray, Apple goes all-glossy! Victory for all…ummm…casual users. This is so fckd up I can’t really believe they’re pulling this off. Yes, it’s much cheaper to produce glossy display compared to matte – but at least give the pros a chance to buy matte displays for a slightly higher price.
Aren’t CRTs glossy? I don’t get the stupid complaints about glossy, they just look better. Get over it.
Glossy?! bwaaahahahaaaa. Good luck Apple.
Looking better and working better are two completely different things. I work in the magazine publishing business – which use many hi-res images for retouching, etc.
Glossy screens are not an option. Under no circumstances will glossy screens work for professionals.
LOL. I knew the glossy hating crowd would just erupt with the introduction of the new glossy-only MBPs and displays. Bwahaha.
But no FW is bad. Really bad. Hey, at least they could have given us one more USB port to make up for the FW loss…
Greenpeace won’t be happy. Apple hasn’t promised to adopt a dolphin for each one of these displays purchased.
I have a Mac Pro and a 23″ Apple Cinema Display. I do a lot of Photoshop and would never buy a glossy screen for my work. If Apple only had glossy Cinema Displays when I purchased my monitor, I would have bought my monitor from another company.
They still have the 23″ matte display, so that would still be my choice were I purchasing a new system today.
I love how there is a reflexion on these glossy screens in Apple presentation movie and pictures. Everyone shows some sort of reflexion.
I’d be willing to bet that all the screens are going glossy due to Apple’s efforts to go green. Think about it, all the materials they are pushing now are relatively easy and common to recycle- glass and aluminum. Matte glass and/or plastic overcoats probably kill their “green-ness”. Remember folks, CRTs, even those used in the pro sector, were glossy. Glossy is not the reason for innacurate color. It can be done with glossy surfaces, as long as other parameters are controlled. I’m am not disputing the fact that the control of those “other” parameters has been somewhat limited.
“LOL. I knew the glossy hating crowd would just erupt with the introduction of the new glossy-only MBPs and displays. Bwahaha.”
Except that the objection now has a functional basis in that we aren’t complaining that it looks bad, we are saying that it’s really not good for doing graphics or image work in Photoshop.
Obviously you don’t work in these arenas or you would understand.