the 30 INCH! flat panel monitor....

Jass Films · Post by **Jass Films** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 2:41 pm

For those of you who haven't heard, apple have just released a remarkable 30 inch flat panel monitor... It is brilliant, This will mean that you no longer will need multiple monitors, the 30 inch one in conjunction with final cut pro would have preview monitors around 17 inches anyway... The screen get an optimum resolution of upto 2560 x 1600, which is AMAZING! However it does not come cheaply... the screen alone is quite a few thousand dollars or pounds, then you also need to buy a special graphics card to run the monitor because of it's huge size... To check the monitor out go to:

http://www.apple.com/displays/

2nd_Recon · Post by **2nd_Recon** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 3:06 pm

Wow. That is one beast of a monitor. IT is actually larger than most of the TVs in my house.

Skitz-O-Phrenia · Post by **Skitz-O-Phrenia** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:07 am

Jass Films wrote:It is brilliant, This will mean that you no longer will need multiple monitors, the 30 inch one in conjunction with final cut pro would have preview monitors around 17 inches anyway...

ya...and I am sure it is the same price as two monitors.....

.....$3300...hmmmm close....

id rather get a 50" plasma and hook it up through the dvi

Jass Films · Post by **Jass Films** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:28 am

I never said it would cost the same... I said you no longer will need two monitors.... There is a difference.

U.S.Amateurfilmaker · Post by **U.S.Amateurfilmaker** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:36 am

Personally, I would go with this 92" if I had the money (It's $20,000)

site: www.go-l.com

Skitz-O-Phrenia · Post by **Skitz-O-Phrenia** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 7:32 am

Jass Films wrote:I never said it would cost the same... I said you no longer will need two monitors.... There is a difference.

sorry didnt meen to come across like that, I was more or less stating that towards apple about the price and then showing a what could be bought with the same money

Jass Films · Post by **Jass Films** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 8:01 am

but LCD Displays cost more than plasma anyway?

Evan77 · Post by **Evan77** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:22 pm

2560 x 1600 resolution! I can't even begin to think of how good that monitor would look.

lukeprausnitz · Post by **lukeprausnitz** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 3:56 pm

s***!!!!DID YOU SEE THE PIC US AMATEURFILMAKER PUT UP!!!!I WANT THAT!!!!

U.S.Amateurfilmaker · Post by **U.S.Amateurfilmaker** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 4:36 pm

I don't think the damn thing would even fit on my desk haha, 4 screens!

But anyway, Apple seriously overprices their stuff for consumers (but not schools). See it's a marketing scheme...Apple sells comps at low costs to schools, the students get used to the interface, and then they go out and buy one themselves, for more than ctwice the price their school paid. Evil!

lukeprausnitz · Post by **lukeprausnitz** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 5:59 pm

my mum gets %50 discounts because shes a teacher

Jass Films · Post by **Jass Films** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 4:20 am

U.S.Amateurfilmaker wrote:I don't think the damn thing would even fit on my desk haha, 4 screens!

But anyway, Apple seriously overprices their stuff for consumers (but not schools). See it's a marketing scheme...Apple sells comps at low costs to schools, the students get used to the interface, and then they go out and buy one themselves, for more than ctwice the price their school paid. Evil!

Alright, let me say this once and once only. Mac is cheaper than PC by a long shot... I got an Apple Emac, with dvd burner, cd burner, and a stack of free games and software including tony hawks pro skater 4.... It has an 80 gb hard, 17in monitor, all for just $1400 AUD, now that is cheap... To get the same stuff for a PC, even from dell, you would b looking at well over $2000 AUD... Mac's are not expensive, it's just a perception that people have. It's like comparing Sony to Teac, Teac is s*** so it costs less, where as Sony is good quality, so it costs more...

Please don't start an apple v pc war...

Skitz-O-Phrenia · Post by **Skitz-O-Phrenia** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 4:56 am

Jass Films wrote:...It's like comparing Sony to Teac, Teac is s*** so it costs less, where as Sony is good quality, so it costs more...

Please don't start an apple v pc war...

hmm sounds like you just did....

dont use dell as a pc statistic...Dell is garbage, as bad as mac. put a mac and a pc on a network and tell me which has more problems....i know cause i have 11 schools i am a network admin for, 9 pc networks and 2 mac networks....the only schools that give me a weekly problem.....you guess

Jass Films · Post by **Jass Films** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 5:37 am

I said don't so im not going too...

Nage3 · Post by **Nage3** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 7:03 am

I built a PC with all the same stuff except it has a 120 GB of hard drive space, 2ghz processor 1.5gb of RAM A CD/CRW burner, a DVD burner, a 1GB Zip drive, and Floppy drive. Also a top of the line power supply, Keyboard, mouse and monitor for the same price, and that was only because I spent $500.00 on a graphics card. You can't compare to Dell because they're a huge rip off. My roommate has one and it sucks. It can't do half what mine can and it cost twice a much. Not to rip on Apple. I do think they have a god product and I would like to purchase one but you can build a PC so much cheaper and it can be upgraded. That's MAC's big problem. No upgrade and it's expensive for a machine that becomes obsolete. Also there isn't a lot of other stuff out there for Macs. I use Macs a lot at school and I like them but I haven't really seen enough of a difference between what they're capable of to persude me one way or the other yet. When it was Final Cut vs. Avid (Ugh) I was all about the Mac, but since Adobe Premier Pro I'm not so sure it's worth the cost difference.

lukeprausnitz · Post by **lukeprausnitz** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 10:25 am

what the hell is an emac??????i thought they were imacs, at least thats what im unsing as i type this...

Jass Films · Post by **Jass Films** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 10:57 am

http://www.apple.com

click on store.

ALove · Post by **ALove** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:34 am

the only good pc is a custom built pc (which i use)

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 5:50 am

30 inches would probably crack my table! I do like that 4 monitor one... it's soo sexy! Dunno where one would go, but I figure I would have a mansion anyways if I can afford one of em.

reflexive_cinematics · Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:15 pm

That 92 incher looks pretty slick , but why on earth would you need adisplay that LONG?!? I would rather get a few regular monitors and stack them for a video wall kinda thing... and it would be cheaper.

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