Well for those of you who have been
keeping track, I just finally acquired my
PowerMac G5 and I thought it'd be a
good time to upgrade my monitor.
This is what I had. It was an Acer 19" LCD,
pretty much the bottom of the barrel model.
I bought it just to kind of make sure if I really wanted one or not, and I do!
That's why I just picked up an Apple 23" Cinema Display.This thing is absolutely gorgeous.
Looking at the back we see that
it's just as good-looking as the front.
The anodized aluminum really looks good
on all sides of this thing.
It's got two firewire and two USB ports.
And only one cord goes to the screen that powers it and yet connects it.
And the touch sensitive controls are actually awesome.
You just tap your finger on the "+" or on
the "-" and the screen will actually dim.
And there's the power button.
I love the side bezel on this Apple monitor because it really shows some of the nostalgia on the older products.
The bezel is just beautiful and smooth all the way around and the finish really comes clean.
And to tell you the truth I've never seen a
screen that moved so effortlessly.
And this is the cinema display box. This is
basically where all your wires plug in.
It kind of helps keep wires to their own.
One thing I really wanted to brush up on here is to show people that on Apple's site,
they list the response rate as a black and white response at 14 m/s.
Typically, black and white response rates will be much higher so Apple is actually being honest.
If we go to newegg.com and check out some of the other monitors,
we see 4ms, 6ms and so on. But that's a g2g, or gray to gray response time which is typically very low.
So Apple's at least being very very honest with their response time.
Now here's BenQ down here and look at this! They list 14 m/s and their grey to grey.
So basically, the Apple display is no worse than any of the other displays.
You won't experience any ghosting or anything like that.
Movies on the cinema display is something like you've never seen before.
And this is Prey running at 1920x1200 and widescreen gaming could not get any better.
One thing to remember when you go to a larger screen you'll likely be running higher resolutions,
so you need to make sure you have a machine that can handle it.
And with most games you can hack into the config file and really stretch it out to fit the screen size.
But some games like Lord of the Rings,
you can't do that, so fuck EA games!
And pictures on the Apple Cinema Display
have never looked better.
I was amazed at the quality of my shots.
Every picture was a new picture to me.
And text is nice, crisp, and clean on the
Cinema Display.
You'll have no problem reading anything. And those are my games.
You know it was a close call between the Samsung 24" display. I really loved the extra inch you gained and
some of the analog connections that you can plug your consoles into in the back.
But I can do without this stupid portrait mode. I would never use this.
But you know what? I'm glad I spent $150 more on the Apple screen because
material is so much better! I mean wouldn't you rather have aluminum than plastic?
I mean I certainly would.
And I really love how the screen really matches the Mac I have right now.
Basically the resale value, touch sensitive controls, screen quality, and firewire/USB ports in the back
really helped my purchase and this concludes my review.
