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Cinema display price drops?
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I just saw an ad today for a 19in LCD monitor at $700 CAD. How can Apple justify charging $1,800 for a 20in? Sure, there a plenty of reasons to prefer the Apple - for me it comes down to the look and quality of Apple hardware, plus the cinema aspect ration. But I would buy a 20in for $1000, or a 23in for maybe $1500, not at the current prices.
I think the market demands it, and LCD prices seem to be dropping fast for other manufacturers. It's inevitable -- the price drop will come eventually. The question is when?
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Apple will have to drop the ACD prices soon, probably in January, to stay competitive. The whole LCD market has seen the price drop across the board since early October due to the oversupply issue in asia.
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I would hope so. Apple is appearing WAY overpriced now that you can get two widescreen 20" Dell monitors for the price of one Apple 20".
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3rd party 19" LCD monitors are 1280x1024. Some are good (I have one) but most suck.
Apple's 20" monitors are 1680x1050 (35% more screen real estate), and include built in Firewire and USB 2.0 ports.
However, there are some reasonably good 3rd party cheap 20" screens around.
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You're no doubt right about the screen real estate, but it isn't true that 3rd party LCDs have significantly worse image quality these days -- LCD quality has improved dramitically for all sellers -- with the possible exception of colour correction which is an important feature with print designers, admittedly, but not for the rest of us.
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Originally posted by calimehtar:
You're no doubt right about the screen real estate, but it isn't true that 3rd party LCDs have significantly worse image quality these days -- LCD quality has improved dramitically for all sellers -- with the possible exception of colour correction which is an important feature with print designers, admittedly, but not for the rest of us.
We got a shipment of Samsung 19" LCDs (193N) just a few months ago. They were utter crap. We returned them for more Samsung 19" LCDs, but a different model (191T). They were quite good in terms of video quality. The build quality was just so so though.
Conclusion: You can't look at just paper specs, or another model of the same brand to assess if a specific screen is good quality.
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Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Apple's 20" monitors are 1680x1050 (35% more screen real estate), and include built in Firewire and USB 2.0 ports.
However, there are some reasonably good 3rd party cheap 20" screens around.
At the time Apple's screens were released, they definitely were the best around. However, like this Dell, the competition has caught up. It has the same overall features, minus the Firewire ports (it has 4 USB 2.0). I'll be interested in seeing what the next step is in their monitors. I hope they haven't/don't get complacent and wait for a refresh as long as they did last time...
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