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Title: Apple Axes Big and Small for Medium with New 27-inch Cinema Display
Post by: javajolt on July 28, 2010, 07:18:03 AM

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Both the 24-inch and 30-inch Apple Cinema displays will disappear in favor of a new 27-inch with LED backlighting and a 16:9 aspect ratio.

Amid all the hubbub over Apple’s new iMacs, Mac Pros and Magic TrackPad, it would be easy enough to miss a major rearrangement of its longstanding line of Cinema displays. In a move that will eliminate some choice for new buyers, Apple has discontinued the existing 24- and 30-inch Cinema displays in favor of a single model: a new 27-inch LED display.

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The 27-inch model shuns the typical 1080p resolution found at its size in favor of 2560 x 1440 – a boost of 60 percent more pixels than the outgoing 24 incher, but slightly less than the mammoth 30-inch model, which stacked 1600 pixels vertically, rather than 1440. Conveniently, that will leave it with 16:9 aspect ratio ideal for widescreen movie watching. The 27-inch display will also use LED backlighting, just as the old 24-inch model did.

Extras include three rear USB ports, built-in stereo speakers, and of course, an iSight camera up top. It connects via Apple’s standard Mini DisplayPort connector.

How much for Apple latest wünderdisplay? About the price of a 46-inch plasma for your living room. It will sell for $999 when it launches in September.

Title: Re: Apple Axes Big and Small for Medium with New 27-inch Cinema Display
Post by: Jake on July 28, 2010, 07:46:14 AM

Quote from: javajolt on July 28, 2010, 07:18:03 AM

The 27-inch model shuns the typical 1080p resolution found at its size in favor of 2560 x 1440 – a boost of 60 percent more pixels than the outgoing 24 incher, but slightly less than the mammoth 30-inch model, which stacked 1600 pixels vertically, rather than 1440. Conveniently, that will leave it with 16:9 aspect ratio ideal for widescreen movie watching. The 27-inch display will also use LED backlighting, just as the old 24-inch model did.

That's right, because everyone wants to watch a DVD (not BluRay, get with the program Apple) stretched to an ungodly resolution of 2560 x 1440.  Granted you don't have to have it in fullscreen but the average Mac user is just going to put in a DVD and let it play.  ::)