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Old 12-13-2005, 06:12 AM
ZBTHorton ZBTHorton is offline
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Default 30 inch Apple Monitor

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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Old 12-13-2005, 06:17 AM
A_Junglen A_Junglen is offline
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Default Re: 30 inch Apple Monitor

Yummy overpriced goodness.

I've heard nothing but good things (besides the price)
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Old 12-13-2005, 06:22 AM
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Just edited my post. I could get one for 1500$.
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Old 12-13-2005, 05:05 PM
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Default Re: 30 inch Apple Monitor

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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
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Old 12-13-2005, 05:07 PM
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I have friends with this monitor and it is absolutely positively GORGEOUS. it was always hooked up to a mac though.
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Old 12-13-2005, 05:10 PM
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Default Re: 30 inch Apple Monitor

If you want to wait a couple weeks Dell is releasing a 30" monitor of their own to compete with this. Not sure about comparisons between them, but I bet with coupons that the Dell will be at least the same price as Apples, if not less.
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Old 12-13-2005, 05:16 PM
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The dell will be significantly less, guaranteed.
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Old 12-13-2005, 05:43 PM
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The dell will be significantly less, guaranteed.

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I don't know about this, its 37in, not 30in.
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Old 12-13-2005, 05:47 PM
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The dell will be significantly less, guaranteed.

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I don't know about this, its 37in, not 30in.

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No it's a 30 inch.
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Old 12-13-2005, 05:49 PM
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I have had the 23" Apple cinema monitor for over a year. I bought it for $2,200 and now, even though the current price is $1,000+ less, I have 0 regrets. It is gorgeous and has worked perfectly on 2 of my windows machines with no extra software or hardware. It's great for poker, gaming and general multi-tasking. It is the size of a smallish TV. I frequently watch DVDs on it from about 8ft away on a couch. I would imagine the 30" would be even better for all the activities I listed above.


I would say that my only complaint is that it does not show any of the bootup messages on my computer, so if I run into a problem and need to go fiddling around in BIOS i need to hook up another a monitor. I don't know if this problem can be fixed. It doesn't really bother me so I never looked into it.
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