The case of the missing monitor

The e-mails have been arriving here at TUAW headquarters for a good portion of the morning with many asking the same question: "What happened to the 20-inch Cinema Display?"

It's true. A check of the direct link to the 20-inch Cinema Display's page reroutes you directly to the main Apple page. The portion of the Apple site dedicated to displays, however, not only still lists the 20-inch Cinema Display, but its departed brethren the 23-inch Cinema Display.

Oh where, oh where, have the 20-inch monitors gone? It leaves a devastatingly slim choice for people wanting an Apple-branded monitor. The new 24-inch LED Cinema Displays won't play nice with either the Mac Pro, iMac, Mac mini, or any other machine that doesn't have a Mini DisplayPort connector -- which pretty much means it's the unibody MacBook family or nothing. The price of the 30-inch Cinema Display is most likely out of reach for a lot of people, as well.

What to do? Take no fear, Amazon still has the 20-inch Cinema Display in stock with free shipping. There's also a host of very nice third-party panels out there. I supplement my MacBook with a 20-inch display from Acer that I picked up at Best Buy for less than $150.

Anyone else have any recommendations for a good non-Apple branded monitor? Let us know in the comments!

Thanks to all who submitted this!

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

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ecobore

Anybody who has suggestions of a monitor that is of photographic quality that can be used with an older Macbook Pro, please DO make suggestions in comments. This for a friend who needs photo correct colours in her monitor. Many thanks

March 05 2009 at 11:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

illustrationoflife

I again can testify to the brilliance of Dell monitors, i'm running a 2008 model 24" and its outspecced the mac displays by far, once it's colour profiled it's hard to beat in the price range, no pink/red shift like some of the older apple displays either.

February 25 2009 at 6:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Issachar Brooks

Dell Ultrasharp Monitors are supposed to rank second to Apple's displays...

February 25 2009 at 5:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

naugahyde

I hear the NEC displays are very good.
A commenter on another blog recommended their professional models.
I went to NEC's site to have a look - but the product line is pretty confusing.
Anyone have any experience with those?

February 21 2009 at 10:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Anthony

Check out the Dell 2209wa. It just came out, it is an IPS panel. Apple's Cinema Display also use IPS panels. It is also INSANELY cheap for a 22 inch IPS panel. Check this out http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?threadid=1181717

February 21 2009 at 1:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

James Kachan

anyone out there in professional photo/graphics?
and KNOWS what theyre talking about?

im looking for a new monitor...
was thinking the dell 24 ultrasharp.
thoughts?

February 20 2009 at 8:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

smoggy

Doesn't the 30 inch require special video cards that most macs don't have?

February 20 2009 at 7:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eric

I've got a couple of very good LG 22" LCDs. Lots of tweaking you can do to get the picture you like. I've got these connected up with the Matrox Triple-Head2Go.

See a pic here: http://img.skitch.com/20090220-km2nfiwbt3hc4dad7gr4ufgt3m.jpg

Note: I've gotten rid of the riser, and the MacBook Pro hides in the keyboard drawer now.

February 20 2009 at 9:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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plivesey

UK store no longer gives you the option to add a display when configuring a mini. Hmmmmmm.

February 20 2009 at 5:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

James F

Maybe this was Apple's way of cutting costs in the recession, by axing part of their display line?

February 20 2009 at 4:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply