New Apple 24" ACD, possibly IPS, definite LED backlight and DisplayPort

philjohn · 14 Oct 2008 at 20:18

Looks like the long overdue refresh to the line starts with a 24" monitor being introduced by apple:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/14/apple-24-inch-cinema-display-hands-on/

Just a pity it's glossy

tem07 · 14 Oct 2008 at 20:24

I love it, deffo asking one for Christmas.
It's glass right?

Happy · 14 Oct 2008 at 21:00

Looks great, imo glossy monitors look better.

Kendo Nagasaki · 14 Oct 2008 at 21:41

It really looks the business but definitely at a price - just checked their website and its priced at £649 & coming soon!

Fifty quid more than the previous model but with the additional features it might be worth consideration if money is no problem. Be interesting to see what reviews it gets.

I think i'll be keeping an eye on this one!!

Its a glass screen as well.

benjo plz. · 14 Oct 2008 at 21:43

It's gonna be *va.

reflux · 14 Oct 2008 at 21:52

Hmmmm, nice one Apple....it looks almost identical to my HP w2408h.

philjohn · 14 Oct 2008 at 22:10

benjo plz. said:
It's gonna be *va.

I very much doubt it, they already use a 24" IPS panel in the iMac. They also have a reputation (deserved or not) as being good monitors for designers and hence the horizontal gamma shift of a VA would be pretty much unnaceptable.

Source?

blackapache · 14 Oct 2008 at 22:39

Grr. Another promising candidate in my quest for the perfect 24" ruined by glossy screen. Iv been searching for a monitor for 3months now to no avail! Still using an old old old school 15"!!!

BA

Kendo Nagasaki · 14 Oct 2008 at 22:52

I guess its down to personal preference in relation to glossy screens but this new Apple 24" is a glass screen which i'm sure won't make much difference as it will still be reflective to some degree.

However, when I think of a glass screen it reminds me of a CRT which never gave me any problems. Does the iMac have a glass screen? I guess you won't really know until you see it in person but i'm lucky enough that an Apple store has opened at the Victoria Square here in Belfast, so it may be worth a look!

The difference between glossy & glass is probably minimal at best but i'm sitting in front of the new Hazro 24" screen which has a glossy finish and it doesn't give me any problems as my screen dosen't face a light source or window but again its down to personal preference.

I'm not trying to defend it and i'm about as far away as an Apple user as you can get but if its LED, IPS & 24" I think it might be interesting to see how this one pans out!

Obviously, the main limiting factor is the price but then again Apple is never cheap.

benjo plz. · 14 Oct 2008 at 23:39

philjohn said:
I very much doubt it, they already use a 24" IPS panel in the iMac. They also have a reputation (deserved or not) as being good monitors for designers and hence the horizontal gamma shift of a VA would be pretty much unnaceptable.

Source?

good monitors for designers?! HP, Nec, LaCie and Eizo make good monitors for designers, not Apple - hell the Apple screens don't even have A-TW polarisers and suffer from green snow.

I'm betting on it being va as it's too cheap to be a LED IPS, especially for Apple. Have a look at the HP DreamColor LP2480zx in comparison.

philjohn · 15 Oct 2008 at 00:15

benjo plz. said:
good monitors for designers?! HP, Nec, LaCie and Eizo make good monitors for designers, not Apple - hell the Apple screens don't even have A-TW polarisers and suffer from green snow.

I'm betting on it being va as it's too cheap to be a LED IPS, especially for Apple. Have a look at the HP DreamColor LP2480zx in comparison.

You didn't read the bit "deserved or not". The number of design studios I've been in where they have ACD's, especially new media agencies is ridiculous. I can count on one hand the number who have Lacie's and Eizo's (which IMHO are overpriced for what they are: rebadged samsung VA's for the most part).

Colossus · 15 Oct 2008 at 00:39

Now that would be a worthy replacement of xerox glass fronted lcd's. Finaly!

But ouch at that price. It had better justify it with more then just good looks.

Fanatic · 15 Oct 2008 at 01:20

Seems like the standard Apple price mark-up to me

philjohn · 15 Oct 2008 at 09:42

Colossus said:
Now that would be a worthy replacement of xerox glass fronted lcd's. Finaly!

But ouch at that price. It had better justify it with more then just good looks.

Fanatic said:
Seems like the standard Apple price mark-up to me

If it's an IPS panel then that's a very good price for an LED backlight one - standard CCFL lit IPS's go for well over £400.

dillingerdan · 15 Oct 2008 at 13:47

Well I am not completely clued up here, but from the absolute stacks of LED backlit non professional grade monitors I've seen [Read NONE], how can anyone say that's expensive? It's expensive, to some extent, but considering the next step is the Samsung monitor on OcUK right now and other professional monitors well into the thousands of pounds for 1 similar sized screen, it's hardly what anyone could call expensive. Plus NECs 24" is hardly much cheaper and it doesn't feature LED back lighting. And surely this will push others (like Dell, Hazro, NEC and whomever else) into making and releasing LED back-lit screens to combat this, else they'll lose some custom, and that will drive prices down.

Nem · 15 Oct 2008 at 14:30

Daft question, but the cables in the pics don't look like PC conectivity, or is there some fancy convertor to DVI or VGA etc etc?

I've not looked at the Apple displays before, as you can gather.

Also this says it has a built in cam, and mic, would they be usable with a pc too, or is that just going to be when used with a mac?

Thanks

Nick

dbcooper · 15 Oct 2008 at 17:10

dillingerdan said:
Well I am not completely clued up here, but from the absolute stacks of LED backlit non professional grade monitors I've seen [Read NONE], how can anyone say that's expensive? It's expensive, to some extent, but considering the next step is the Samsung monitor on OcUK right now and other professional monitors well into the thousands of pounds for 1 similar sized screen, it's hardly what anyone could call expensive. Plus NECs 24" is hardly much cheaper and it doesn't feature LED back lighting. And surely this will push others (like Dell, Hazro, NEC and whomever else) into making and releasing LED back-lit screens to combat this, else they'll lose some custom, and that will drive prices down.

Will be interesting to see what kind of LED backlight it has. I suspect that RGB LED is required for really high quality, whereas some cheaper LED backlit displays (i.e Lenovo) only use white LEDs.

Adrianr · 15 Oct 2008 at 17:28

It was doing so well up to the glossy part. On the plus side it will now look wicked in a shop, as usual.

Arcane · 15 Oct 2008 at 17:31

Response time (typical): 14 ms. (taken from the tech specs).

kmetek · 15 Oct 2008 at 17:43

too expensive.