[dhanushan]

what are the pros and cons when choosing between Apple Studio Display (17"/16" VIS) and Apple Studio Display (15" flat panel). Which offers more quality for you buck? Please advise

Dhanu

[Misha]

With the recent price cut on the 15" ($800) and the seemingly over priced 17" ($500), that's a tough call. The 17" does offer a bit more viewable area and allows you to set a resolution higher than 1024x728 (lots of people like to run 17" at 1152x768 or 1280x1024).

It really depends on your needs and your tastes... if I was confifuring a system for moderate use and didn't plan on "needing" a larger resolution than 1024x728, I'd definitely go with the 15".

[babble]

About the different creens... I'm a graphic artist who needs colorsync. I know that only the 17"CRT has hardware Colorsync management.

Does the 15"LCD have software ColorSync management?
I've fallen in love with the LCD and the difference in screen space is so small that I dont mind going with the LCD... About the 1024x768 rez being the max on LCD (in millions of colors?) . If we get LCD do we need more than the rage with 16MB card??? Will the 32MB vram cards give us something more?

thks

[Wattsy]

The new LCD screens are good - very good. However, if you are serious about being able to use your monitor for professional level graphics work (involving colour critical work) you will need a CRT monitor. Don't let anyone try and tell you otherwise. If colour accuracy is not paramount, get the LCD - the price differential makes the LCD the better value choice.

[babble]

Thanks Wattsy,

Yes colour is critical in my owrk (lot's of prepress)... But I liked the new LCD's prices

[imacman11]

But the LCD is *supposed* to have accurate color depiction (The Apple LCDs anyway).

What I'm curious about is if it will be better for gaming than the CRT would be and regular graphics/day to day work.

I've heard that the CRT (the new one) causes some eye sores/strain if used for long periods of time...(when they did the same things before on different monitors, it didn't cuase the eye sores)

Anyway, I'm trying to decide. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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[dhanushan]

Thanks folks! Appreciate it!

Dhanu...

[dhanushan]

Thanks folks! Appreciate it!

Dhanu...

[MacBook]

I assume from the comments that the LCD would be fine for mainly for word processing, e-mail, web pages, and limited graphics (amateur photo and video editing, and some work-related Pagemaer work, and that eyestrain likely would be less than on the CRT. Are those assumptions correct?

[scottiB]

MacBook,

Yes you're correct. I've done all you've mentioned on a Pismo, and it's fine. The color-correctness issue is pretty much for print media--and please anybody correct me if I'm wrong (i.e., does the color on the screen correctly represent the color that will be printed). This stipulation is really for the realm of graphic designers (at least to me--the color difference between my iMac and Pismo screens is so trivial to my untrained eye that it's a non-factor).

I would prefer the 17" CRT because all the Macs I own are 1024x768, and, darnit, I want 1280x1024.

[Castor]

I read something about the 15" having the ability to look at it from an angle, as opposed to it only looking good from one point of view (straight in front of the screen) Anybody care to comment?