Inspirational Technology

Apple 20" Cinema Display

Well the new 20" Cinema Display arrived today, and it's best described as absolutely stunning, breathtaking, and just amazingly beautiful. I've always loved the display on my Powerbook, but next to this new Cinema Display the Powerbook display looks like a yellowed newspaper. Literally! The Cinema Display is just so much brighter with whiter whites, blacker blacks and generally stunning color. The only thing that could be better would be to have two of these things.

BTW, I was wrong about the VGA adapter that came with the Powermac, it was for the DVI port rather then the ADC port. So setting up my VGA monitor as a second display was trivial. Unfortunately, it's too ugly and takes up too much space to keep on my desk now.

As usual the out of box experience for the Cinema Display was outstandingly simple. Unpack, plug the one cable in, detect displays and you're off and running with dual displays, outstanding.

One thing I'd like to see improved is the positioning of the display. With the elegant solution on the iMac, the way the Cinema Displays work leaves a bit to be desired. I tend to sit low with my chair almost bottomed out on its height and the display leans back a little more then I would like. I can put something under the leg to tilt it, but it just seems wrong to spoil the elegance of it that way.