The 20-inch (diagonal) Apple Cinema Display offers a panoramic view - enough to see as much as two full A4-size pages of text, with room left over for menus, video clips, tool bars and palettes. With a resolution of 1680 by 1050 pixels, the Apple Cinema Display delivers twice the brightness, twice the sharpness and three times the contrast of ordinary displays. The Apple Cinema Display is ideal for the demanding professional user.
The Apple Cinema Display series lets you focus your creative energies by keeping your desktop layout simple. Edit images and web pages up to two full pages at a time, or view multiple video streams or DVDs in full widescreen. Delivering up to 1,680 x 1,050-pixel resolution, the new 20-inch Apple Cinema Display offers twice the brightness, twice the sharpness, and twice the contrast ratio of the typical CRT display.
Wide viewing angles (170 degrees horizontal and vertical) enable easy placement in your workstation, and Apple's ColorSync technology allows you to create custom profiles to maintain consistent color onscreen and in print. Pixel response time is fast for seamless full-motion video. Although Apple does not provide a specific pixel response time (usually stated in milliseconds), it claims that the monitor is designed to respond quickly across the entire color spectrum, while most manufacturers report only the transition from black to white.
The pure digital interface delivers distortion-free images that never need adjusting, meaning that user controls are streamlined and kept to a minimum. Compatible with the Power Mac G4 desktop series or PowerBook G4 laptops, the 20-inch Apple Cinema Display does require Mac OS X v10.2 or higher and connects through the Apple Display Connector (ADC) cable for digital video, USB, and power.
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
Dressed to impress vs. production tool, August 30, 2006
By
M. Spangler (Seattle, WA)
I have always loved the look of this display, in part because it looks good next to the cpu. Apple does a great job of packaging and design. When I received the monitor I found I had 2 dead pixels. Fortunately, that has never really bothered me too much. I have lived with this monitor for about 2.5 years and just after the 2 year mark I suffered the same problem other users have reported . . . dimmed light bars at the top of my screen. Since I have seen those lights display at normal power when I was having a hard drive failure, and in combination with other research I have done, I know it's not the lights, but the transformer, or power connection for the two upper bars. I have an Apple Store about 10 minutes away, and I get the normal "it's not worth repairing" reply. For over $400 and a 90-day warranty, I would agree. I will probably always be a devoted Apple customer . . . as far as CPU's is concerned, however monitors is a different thing now. Unless you are okay with buying a new monitor every 2 years, you need to seriously consider other monitors from LaCie, HP, Sony, NEC and Viewsonic, which have gotten better ratings on text rendering, color graphics and viewability at angles. If you want to look cool, the Cinema Display is the way to go. It boils down to if you use this as a design/production tool, or just to have fun and impress your friends. You can do both for a while. A short while.
Incredible Display - Premium Prices - flawed, May 30, 2005
By
Rick Paul (Orange County, CA)
The Good:
This monitor has the BEST image quality I have seen on a 20" LCD display. I have used it side by side with a wide range of LCD displays. There is no comparison.
Apple has released a new 20" cinema display and phased this one out. The new displays use different parts, and do not have the same image quality as this one. This phased out display, has better image quality than the newer displays.
The price of the display is about twice that of the next highest price display. I purchased mine for about $1600 (with dvi converter). Pretty much all other 20" displays at that time were about $800. I did not mind the price because of the image quality, and the company name.
The Bad:
After owning the display for 16 months, it stopped working properly. One of the boards that controls the backlight went out. This is a very common problem (thousands of posts in the apple boards). It is a design flaw. Apple will not admit to this design flaw, though. How can so many displays go bad in such a short period of time?
You would think that with thousands of people reporting problems on their $1000+ device that apple would take care of them. You would think a $1000+ monitor would have more than a 1 year warranty. You would hope that a $1000+ device lasts longer than 1 year. Apparently Apple wants to have premium prices without premium service.
The cost to repair the display is roughly $500. This is pretty expensive. Apple's cost for a brand new display is less than $500. They now sell new ones for about $800.
I have looked up the price of repair parts, and it is roughly $20. Labor would be about 1 hour so add $100. Take account for liability $80? It should not cost more than $200 to fix this. I do not know where the $500 comes from. Perhaps Apple just wants to put a stick in our eye and twist it.
Apple 20" Cinema Display, October 31, 2004
By
MAC Fan! (NorthEast, USA)
Simply put this is THE BEST DISPLAY I HAVE EVER SEEN! Crystal clear images !
Two USB conector, and a power switch, March 6, 2004
By
Renato Veras Baptista (Brasil)
It is not jut the best Display I ever had see. I solve two other "problems" in Mac use:
It give tho more USB conectors and it have a switch to turn your Mac On.
If you can afford the price, I recomend.
Wonderful Monitor, December 2, 2003
By
Sara Swihart (Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA)
I write from the college newspaper and we use this monitor to work on the lay-out for the paper each week. This monitor is great because the graphics are clear. We also run programs like Adobe Photoshop, and the graphics are awesome with that program as well. This monitor just works great. We haven't had any problems with it!
