The New 24” LED Displays Now Shipping.
Not even a week after the 23” Cinema Displays made their way out of the store, the 24” LED display has taken over. The sexy display, which for the first time includes a built-in iSight, a glossy display, a new DisplayPort connector, as well as a Mag Safe connector to power your MacBook. Or to put things into perspective, your new MacBook.
We all saw this coming (except maybe for Apple), that the new LED displays will only connect to a computer with a DisplayPort connector. And since besides the new MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, there are no other devices in the market sporting the DisplayPort standard, the new display will only be usable with these three. They haven’t even made any converters to connect this to anything other than DisplayPort. Thankfully, the reverse of this is true, which is that you can connect any monitor (using converters) to a new MacBook or MacBook Pro.
Apple seems to have made a mess with their display lineup. Not only is this a glossy (and therefore unprofessional) display, it also cannot connect to Apple’s own professional machine, the Mac Pro. Having being left to choose between just a 20” display and a 30” display, I’m sure Dell is going to sell quite a few of those new 23” pro monitors. Come Macworld 09, Apple is definitely going to convert its entire lineup to feature DisplayPort connectors and glossy displays.
The new LED Display sells for a rather high steep price of $900, and is shipping today from the Apple online store (US). A few of the Apple retail stores have also got models for display and retail. The rest of the world awaits.
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Apple is crazy! I have been waiting for confirmation that there is no converter to my MacBook pro DVI. Guess I will give my money to Dell. You lose Apple, not me.
dave November 19th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Perhaps Steve Jobs is also going to go the way of that Yahoo Yang guy. This move is just too fucked up. Actually, it’s not so much the DisplayPort that I’m worried about (the open standard will allow anyone to create a converter), I’m more concerned about the move to glossy (worse still, glassy).
ralph November 19th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Bad move apple. leaving out the professionals is just going to cause you ‘a bag of hurt’. The new display looks slick and consumeristic. They should keep both the displays so that consumers and professionals are happy at the same time.
anjie November 19th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Isn’t the thought that all Apple monitors will be glossy conjecture? It is clear that MacWorld will bring us DisplayPort MacPros as well as a replacement for the 30” Cinema Display, but I could easily see them making a matte option for that. Since all pros would want the larger monitor all of this discussion will fade away.
stwf November 20th, 2008 at 2:26 am