A number of observant TUAW readers have also noticed that Apple has (quietly) slashes Cinema display prices with the introduction of the Mac Pro. There were rumors of Cinema updates before WWDC, but it seems that Apple simply wanted to give our pocketbooks a break with the $500 increase in the Mac Pro's price. Cinema display prices now look a little something like this:Use Spotlight as a reference tool. Type any word in the Spotlight box and one of the top entries will be a definition. Click on it, and it will bring up the dictionary application to check the word in either the dictionary, thesaurus, Apple database, or Wikipedia.
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b. nystedt said 3:16PM on 8-07-2006
What?! Only $649 EDU?! Come on I would have purchased one like (snap of fingers) that if it were $599! Grrrr... they just gave the EDU price to everybody.
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Warui said 3:17PM on 8-07-2006
Nice, it is ... possibly the prelude to cinema displays with built-in iSights (?)
It's also remarkable, that for quarters of hours i cannot get to log into ADC for peeking into XCode 3.0 .... several Apple Servers are simply full of requests, i guess ... 'mazing ^,^
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Jimmy said 3:18PM on 8-07-2006
anyone know if the display specs have been improved? Don't remember what the previous specs were, but the current models have a 14ms reponse time, 400cd/m2 brightness (for the 23" and 30") and 700:1 contrast ratio. Are these good/comparable specs?
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bophojones said 3:19PM on 8-07-2006
Cinema Displays Edu prices:
20 in - $649
23 in - $849
30 in - $1799
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Wayne said 3:19PM on 8-07-2006
20-inch: $649
23-inch: $899
30-inch: $1799
That's the education pricing for UCLA Apple Store. Pretty good, I'll have to say.
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Reid Bode said 3:19PM on 8-07-2006
I was just in an Apple store mid last week, and saw some (now) poor bloke buy a 30-incher.
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Jason said 3:20PM on 8-07-2006
Education prices:
20" - $649
23" - $899
30" - $1799
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bophojones said 3:22PM on 8-07-2006
*edit*
Wayne is right, 23 inch is $899
And that's from the ASU apple store
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Dat Nguyen said 3:32PM on 8-07-2006
State and Local employee discount.
20'' $649
23'' $919
30'' $1,839
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Mark said 3:42PM on 8-07-2006
Still masivly more expensive in the UK, despite the price reduction. :-(
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jk said 4:14PM on 8-07-2006
yeah, even the developer prices on the displays aren't that great: 629, 899, and 1799
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Karen Eliot said 4:51PM on 8-07-2006
So, in the UK, the new prices are...
£529
£779
£1549
Anyone know what they were before today?
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Steve said 5:24PM on 8-07-2006
Dell's 30" is $2199. Apple has a lower price than Dell on basically the same thing? What's next? Snow in Mexico?
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=555&l=en&oc=MLB1652&s=biz
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greatslack said 5:31PM on 8-07-2006
Except for the 30 incher, it's still cheaper to get the exact same display from Dell:
$459, $747, $2199
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Steven said 5:41PM on 8-07-2006
I just got the dell last week for a bit less than $2200 after tax. Shipping was free and took all of 39 hours. It may not match my MBP, and perhaps I would have gone with the Apple just because of price (looking young and keeping your college ID are good things)...but I'll have to say that Apple needs to improve their display. It's a breeze to rotate the dell in every direction and raise it up and down, and the memory card reader is the fastest I've ever used. I'm actually using 3/4 of the USB ports, whereas I'd never use the firewire on the apple. The maneuverability is the key point, though...being able to see the screen perfectly whether I'm on the floor or in a chair or lying in bed is fantastic. The last thing is the warranty - comes with 3 years, expandable to 5 for $79, and dell overnights you a new monitor and lets you ship your broken one back upon receipt.
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Maple Syrup in my blood said 5:44PM on 8-07-2006
In beaver pelts.
$719.00 (642.997 US) - cheaper
$999.00 (893.4 US) - cheaper
$2,099.00 (1,877.123 US) - more expensive ???
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David Chartier said 6:07PM on 8-07-2006
#6: If I recall correctly, Apple has a (quiet) policy of matching their own prices within a 14 day period. Here's hoping that guy finds out about it somehow.
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Donovan Bond said 6:21PM on 8-07-2006
The Dell's may be a little less expensive overall, but at least now the price difference for a monitor that actually looks decent is a little easier to swallow.
Still, I was hoping Apple would release a monitor for graphics pros with higher end colour calibration. Looks like I'll be waiting for Eizo to match LaCie's 12 bit.
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sc said 9:37PM on 8-07-2006
Still over priced, sorry to say, but true, Samsung 20 inch at least 400 dollars less.
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