Apple today unveiled a new 27-inch LED Cinema Display with 2560 x 1440 resolution and 60 percent more screen real estate than the 24-inch LED Cinema Display. Featuring a built-in iSight video camera, microphone and speakers, powered USB 2.0 hub, and universal MagSafe connector, the new LED Cinema Display is an ideal companion for the MacBook family or a Mac desktop, and is available for US$999.
“With built-in MagSafe charging, iSight camera, speakers, and USB ports, the LED Cinema Display is ideal for MacBook and MacBook Pro users,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, in the press release. “With its massive 2560 x 1440 resolution, the new 27-inch LED Cinema Display is a perfect fit with our powerful new Mac Pro, and it gives iMac users an easy way to double their screen real estate.”
The new, larger 27-inch LED Cinema Display features a beautiful 16:9 edge-to-edge glass display on an aluminum stand with an adjustable hinge that makes tilting the display almost effortless. The LED Cinema Display has vivid colors and exceptionally high contrast and uses a premium display technology called in-plane switching (IPS) to provide a brilliant image across an ultra wide 178 degree viewing angle.
Designed as a companion for any Mac notebook or desktop, the 27-inch display includes a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing, an integrated MagSafe charger to keep Mac notebooks charged, built-in Mini DisplayPort connectivity for video and audio input and a powered three-port USB 2.0 hub so customers can charge their iPhone® or iPod® even when they take their MacBook with them.
The new LED Cinema Display now includes a new ambient light sensor which automatically adjusts the display brightness based on external lighting conditions and uses only as much energy as necessary to provide an optimum viewing experience. Made with mercury-free LED technology, arsenic-free glass and highly recyclable materials, the LED Cinema Display meets stringent Energy Star 5.0 requirements and achieves EPEAT Gold status. The new display contains no brominated flame retardants and all cables and components are PVC-free.
Pricing & Availability
The new LED Cinema Display will be available in September through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $999. The LED Cinema Display requires a Mac with Mini DisplayPort.
Source: Apple Inc.
This and the Mac Pro – A lethal combination powerhouse
3 of these and Mac Pro – Al Gore configuration
Matt option?
Is adding USB 3.0 as a production update at some point technically feasible?
No FireWire ports?
Not anti-glare, or even the option?
Some other company gets my dough.
“…and it gives iMac users an easy way to double their screen real estate.”
A. Done. Deal.
@Markim…
What about Tom, Dick or Harry options to keep Matt company? Although, he may prefer Sally or Jane.
16:9 is fine for watching television or playing games consoles, but I prefer 16:10 for my work.
I mourn the loss of the great 2560×1600 panels (and they weren’t glossy either).
I have one each of the 30-inch models for my two Macs, will be unhappy when I have to replace them: 2560×1440 loses me 409,600 pixels per panel.
Apple lets its pro graphics users down once again with no matte screen.
Looks like more people will be doing what I did – buy from a company who cares about its customers – and meets their needs with hi-spec professional matte screens.
Apple doesn’t do matte anymore, Firewire is basically a dead standard (a moment of silence please), and USB3 has very little support at this point in time, so get over it.
Firewire being dead irks me though. It’s a superior bus compared to USB, but it never got the support. I think being an Apple created standard had something to do with that, especially since it was ’90’s Apple.
Oh, for the love of Gawd, cease your incessant bitching and complaining and depart Apple and its products forever, Twenty Benson, Mr. Reeee, et al. This company is NOT–NOTNOTNOTNOT–for you, nor will they ever be. Vote with your feet, gentlemen, not your mouths, and help put Steve and Company out of business forever, OK?
Clearly, your standards cannot be met by the cadre of Ive, Cook, Jobs, and the like, so do suck it up, walk down to your local Dell or Microsoft store, and make yourselves deliriously happy. DO IT. And STFU!
No matte option? NO SALE APPLE!!
So I read somewhere a while ago about audio through the mini display port. does that mean that microphone and speakers go via that connection to the display and need no other?
ta
also, no microphone on the display?
No dildo either
Matte is a third party option, get it over it already.. (whiners)
Hey breeze fanatic, chill a sec. I wasn’t complaining, just wanted to know. My MBP would be off to the side, so the iunternal mike wouldn’t work in my setup.
And having thought about it after my post, it really doesn’t matter because I can just plug the microphone into the USB port in the back of the display to limit connections to MBP every time I go in and out of the office.
Not on the Apple store?
Paul, not available until September…
@Mr. Reeee,
No Firewire? Please! It’s a display.
Thank God it DOESN’T come with a matte option. Otherwise, there’d be no troll bitching to read. Nonstop. Every. Damn. Time.
I’m not sure that I really get all the uproar over the lack of a matte option. Do you realize just how much brighter these screens are over the older (matte or glossy) screens? The new ones not only give you the added brightness, but give much better color and contrast. As a photographer that shoots primarily water/underwater themes, and as often as not works one the water as well, the new glossy LED screens offer me more than the older screens.
Do you happen to remember when the matte finish screens first came out? Those of you who are screaming about no matte finish were the same ones that screamed about the disappearance of glossy.
Glossy is good!
b:
Wasn’t directed specifically at you, (if the shoe fits…) but at all the miserable sissy whinees that complain about every stupid thing in the planet that is trivial and insignificant without a …thought first.
No fanaticism – Just the facts. Life ain’t for sissies.
I like the ambient light sensor for the new LED Cinema Display, Anyone know if the new iMacs include that as well? I skimmed their specs but didn’t see it listed. That would be a nice feature for the desktops, too.