30 inch Apple Monitor

[CalvinTy]

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So I was about to go buy 2 2001FP's. I'm gonna spend about a grand on them.

And the opportunity to get a 30 inch cinema Apple monitor for 1500$ comes up. Anyone have any experience with these on a PC? Are they as good as the other apple products?

Advice would be appreciated.

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I have had old Dell 2000FP (at least 2 yrs old) that I just added the new Dell 2001FP just 2 weeks ago as my 2nd monitor. Love having both of them side-by-side even if the 2001FP model IS SO MUCH BETTER in many ways!

Basically, while I have no experience with 30" Apple Cinema Display or any Apple monitors (I also have heard rave reviews about the 17" ones a while back), it all boils down to what screen real estate you want based on screen resolution (preferably using the native LCD resolution) & your surfing habits if you do choose a 2-monitor setup.

I see that Apple's 30" native resolution is at 2560w x 1600h, while Dell's 20" native resolution is at 1600w x 1200h (putting 2 of them next to each other would mean an effective screen resolution of 3200w x 1200h).

For playing poker, other than Party's beta resizing windows, most sites still use a max of 800wx600h window for each table. So, I love my 20" display showing 4 tables without any overlap on each monitor so 8-tabling would very easy to navigate (not that I haven't reached to that point in actually playing 8-tabling yet, lol).

On Apple's 30" it would easily display 3 full tables wide, 2 full tables high (2400w x 1200h) with some screen real estate left. (this is based on no overlapping at all so that is at least 6 tables in full view).

Really, it all depends on how you want to use your screen real estate for in the grand scheme of things.

Alright, I gotta bail... hope my post was not lost on anyone...

Cheers,

* CalvinTy