Apple is discontinuing the only monitor it makes, the Thunderbolt Display

[Mitch Ives]

[Eric Santiago] “How many here are still using the Apple Cinema 30’s?”

Still using it… there’s value for you. Cost way less over the time I’ve had it, than an MS Office subscription costs today…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Walter Soyka]

[Eric Santiago] “How many here are still using the Apple Cinema 30’s?”

I still have an ancient Apple Cinema Display 30″ on an assist workstation, but I don’t trust it for anything critical anymore. It’s dimmed a lot, its linearity has suffered, it exhibits a subtle but strange “shadowing” under areas of high-contrast, shows temporary persistence (like CRT burn-in) after holding an image for a while, and I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if it’s also discolored a bit.

I certainly got my money’s worth, but it doesn’t even come close to any of the other monitors we have today (a few Samsung UD970, LG 34UM95, and HP ZR30w units). Technology has advanced and the Apple Cinema Display 30″ (and the other competing 30″ monitors of its quality and vintage) has aged.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
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