“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.
The new 27-inch LED Cinema Display is available through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of US$999. The LED Cinema Display requires a Mac with Mini DisplayPort.
Source: Apple Inc.
I don’t get why they would discontinue the 24″…
Looks nice, as expected, but for AU$1299 I think I’ll stick with my 24″ Dell screen. It does the job just fine.
The 30″ looks like it’s gone too..
Very nice indeed, I want a 27″ …too bad the price is way out of my reach:(
Mmmmmmmm…..
Looks like they aimed for maximum parts commonality with the 27″ iMac both to match appearances as well as to improve the economic viability of each.
Smart thinking, but I’ve grown to expect no less.
Oh so this will be the one I have to get now so I can watch the movies I’ve downloaded from iTunes. Cause as of right now, my bought movies, running on a MacBook Pro connected to an older Apple Cinema Display WILL NOT PLAY, because the monitor cannot be verified as a secure display. TOTAL FAIL.
Craig
“Looks nice, as expected, but for AU$1299 I think I’ll stick with my 24″ Dell screen. It does the job just fine.”
Not for anyone who cares what the image on their screen look like, even the high end dell “Ultrasharp” series monitors are poor to middling, the budget ones are an abomination.
Still glass, still reflective.
You think for what Apple charges they would use a sheet of Museum Type Glass which has only <1% surface reflection rate?
I agree Bizarro but I would be concerned about any artifacts affecting the display.
I have never heard anyone complain about the glass surface on old CRT displays.
Where was the vocal minority who hates glass displays back in the CRT days?
It’s a beautiful thing !
@kayan
Oh a lot of people complained about the reflective nature of CRT screens, anti-glare screens were the norm hanging stupidly in front of them if you remember. Also why flat screen LCD’s came out with matte films applied and overtook the CRT’s market share.
Now that LCD’s have taken over they are going cheap and back to glossy.
So now it’s “fashionable” to have a reflective display, but not practical. Much like high heels would be for jogging.
If you use a computer a lot, the glare issue becomes a problem. If your eyes hurt and get headaches from using a reflective display, you know what the cause is.
Any guesses as to wether the height matches up to a 27″ iMac?
“I agree Bizarro but I would be concerned about any artifacts affecting the display.”
The anti-reflective nature of specialized glass is processed on the atomic scale as the glass is being formed, so there wouldn’t be any additional introduced artifacts.
If there was, it would filtered out in the normal quality control process before delivery.
Anyone close to a decent art/framing shop can see a sample of this type of glass next to the regular reflective glass, the difference is really amazing.
You’ll see that reflective glass is purely cheap cr*p in comparison.
@kayan – I just looked at my dad’s old CRT monitor and it is not NEARLY as reflective as today’s (especially Apple’s) polished screens.
I suggest people didn’t complain because there was less to complain about (and no alternative).
Screw glossy. My next monitor will not be an Apple monitor.
Bizarro, you’re thinking about the wrong type of artifacts…
Ok all this nonsense has to stop.
First: they were coated and uncoated glossy screens as well as matte finished glass. The matte finished screens were very unpopular because of the thickness required of the CRT front glass (particularly in the later, single curvature and totally flat screens) which would yield a verry soft very “luma-bloomed” display. (translation- not sharp, looked like crap)
If you look on an old premium CRT they were antireflective coated (no matte finished) this is done using a thin film coating (this is the same as is used in premium camera lenses) You can tell because they have a odd brownish or red-violoet sheen to them (depending on the thickness of the antireflective coating, this has to do with thin film optics see wiki if you are interested in the mechanics of it)
This kind of thin-film coating on polished glass (normally sputtered on in a vacuum, again consult wiki if you are interested in the particulars) is expensive to apply but was justifiable when a 19″ (18″ viewable) monitor cost nearly $5,000, It simply is not cost justifiable on the huge surfaces and low prices of todays LED monitors (plus very few companies are actually using optical glass a requirement for sputter coating) most use plastic)
Ok now for all you matte-screen-weenies -listen carefully- there is absolutely no optical difference between matte finishing glass and applying a matte plastic film to the front of a gloss screen.
So give it an effing rest guys, if you want a matte screen (most professionals don’t since is significantly increases bloom) Simply buy one of the matte film kits and, may I say on behalf of the other 98%, STFU!
I hate glossy! It’s that simple. So instead of an Apple display I will buy a competitor’s monitor.
When do you think we’ll get those thin, transparent screens you see on the movies once-in-a-while? Or the 3D ones on Avatar…come on Apple, make it happen already.
Markim, you can choose to do that, rather than to apply a matte film (pretty easy BTW), but you will either pay more or get a vastly inferior image.
Apple rules the roost as offering the most for the least (yes I know to think of apple monitors as “economy” surprises some) there are Monitors that can match or even exceed Apple’s image quality, but they are considerably more money.
So, if you have non-critical needs feel free to get a lessor monitor and you will be able to save considerable money, at the cost of considerable image quality. Or buck up for something like and eizo color edge and pay 2X for a slightly better monitor.
Sorry Bizarro. It was my lame attempt at humor with “museum” and “artifacts”.
In my opinion, the most egregious mistake Apple has made with this display (especially at this price) is the lack of other inputs (HDMI, in particular.) It would be nice to have the option of a second input like the iMac has (so you could have it connected to both a laptop and a Mac Pro, for example – or even an Apple TV, for that matter). And in an even more perfect world, it would still have the Firewire Hub that the old displays had.
Glossy = NO SALE!!