Cinema Display vs. Dell Monitor

[Ernie Santella]

I use the Dell 2407 along with my Apple 30″. The Dell looks great and there’s no issues hooking it up. The Dell also gives you analog inputs for Component, S and Composite. Nice to have too.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Dude, get a dell.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/951531

[Rich Rubasch]

The Dells are a better value because they have a plethora of input and output connections….as well as PIP features and great setup menus. I have Dells on all our systems and even have the Dell 32 inch LCD HD TV.

Great value and haven’t let us down yet…

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[David Bogie]

> I’ve been reading up on the current cinema displays and heard a lot of complaints and a lot of people saying they aren’t worth the money. < You've never heard anything negative about them from me or my partner or anyone in our other departments who use Apple Cinema displays for crucial color management of Photoshop and Illustrator/InDesign jobs. Just try to take one of the Apple 23 inchers away from any of them. > I’ve been hearing good things about the Dell monitors (cheaper, same quality) but I worry about compatibility< You can hear good things about almost any product if you look hard enough or ask enough people. The Dell series seem to be superb values and great monitors. If it's your money, get the Dell. I try to save my company money every day and I believe the Apple 23 incher is also a superb computer display for $900 but, full disclosure, it's not my money. The never-very-accurate Apple rumor mills have the tired Cinema display series being revamped or replaced or enjoying a significant price break in the next 2-12 months. If the 30 incher ever hits $1,200, I'm all over it. bogiesan

[Adam Smith]

While I’ve never had an Apple Cinema Display to compare, I’m very happy with my two Dell 2407’s. I would have preferred to get the cool matching Apple displays and I’m not a fan of Dell in the least, but these monitors are rather nice, and I feel like I got more for my money while saving $400-500.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Aparently the 20″ and 30″ Dells have the exact same screen in them as the Apples…

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[Pxlmvr]

I have a 2407 as well and from the research I did before I bought it, it came out ahead of the ACD picture wise and it was less expensive and had more inputs. Much more value for who I work for. I’m not into buying equipment that matches, I want performance at a good price and the Dells deliver.

[Uli Plank]

We have Dells all over our facility, and they don’t look that bad next to a Mac. Great value for the money.

Regards,

Uli

[Rennie Klymyk]

I had something like 11 dead pixels in my mac 23″ back when they were $2000.00. When I tried to get waranty replacement I was without a monitor for a month while they sent my various used monitors they’ve had returned. The waranty allows them to give you a used replacement so eventually I settled for a replacement with 11 dead blue pixels instead of my original with 11 dead red ones. Dell warranty sends you a replacement and then you send in your defective one so right there there is a much better situation.

I’ve been covering the front bezels of my monitors with black gaffers tape since biege was the only finish available on computer monitors. For the past decade companies like sun, sgi and lacie have all been suppling monitors with light obsorbing DARK finishes for use in proffesional enviroments where color grading and accuracy is paramount because those beige borders are an infulence to the preception of color. The 1st generation of apple display were a great inovation from apple but did they miss the boat with the big pearly frame around them. They at least have smartened up enough to give us the thin frame but why not in black anodized? The dells are way better for this reason also. I’ve just gone to a huge amount of trouble to swap all my racks from beige to black and paint my walls dark blue/grey for this same reason. As an audio professional friend commented to me when I began to defend my choice “well” he said, “I don’t sweeten my audio with the radio on, I use a sound controlled enviroment so it makes perfect sense to color correct in one too”

Apple makes some great products but they are too into the wowie zowie influence factor in selling to consumers. Although they’ve gotten away from the jelly bean look I’ll be buying a couple of dell 23’s” for my next purchase.