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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

Reflective screen is impossible

Written by PD from LONDON

Nov 3, 2009

...Unless you have full control of your working environment - ie really dark
no windows no lights - this monitor is great, if you work in a light studio forget it

If your working on black in a light/normal studio all you can see is your own reflection, how can apple produce this screen without a matte option? - They must know that everyone using the screens professionally would have this problem?

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

disapointed

Written by GM from Tétange

Oct 28, 2009

sorry but i have to say that i was really fast decided to buy the display, but also fast disapointed. i bought a new power mac two 2.8 quad in march 2009. i bought the display today (28th october) to find out @ home that i cannot connect the display to my mac because of the HD 2600 XT graphic card. i just got of the phone with my apple reseller who told me that i even could not change the graphic card.
so think about it when you're decided to buy this display. i'll return tomorrow to my reseller to get my money back.

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

Short of the mark

Written by DM from Birmingham

Oct 12, 2009

The cables are too short for my Mac Pro. I have to use two video cards since Apple doesn't make a card with two Mini-DP outputs.

I can't stand the glare. I paid $1500 for my last CRT monitor in part because of the quality of the anti-glare coating. I want to see my work, not myself or things behind me. Why has this escaped Apple?

Back to the Apple Store these go. You would think they would have a good option for professionals considering they sell $5,000 desktops!

Please, Please provide a matte display and either give us cables that are long enough or give us a free set of extension cords (like on the aluminum keyboards). A modern video card with two mini-DP ports and 10 bit color would be quite nice as well.

Thanks.

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

I wanted a lcd monitor, not a MIRROR!!!!

Written by PA from Montreal

Sep 17, 2009

All right I did buy the Apple LED Cinema display after reading tons of reviews and understanding its specs. Some people said its glossy coating is a little intense but i tought it should be not so bad. I went to the store, ¨Oh it glossy, well its Apple it will be ok once at home, it because of the store¨ (I wanted it so badly), so I buy it, install it and begin working on it....

Wake up call!! I bought a MIRROR!! I wanted so bad to like this screen; amazing screen quality, amazing look, fit perfectly with my macbook... huge deception...

So returned the screen because in everyday life the glass on the lcd act like a mirror if you got ANY light source behind yourself: windows, light or white wall.

This is the worst mirror kind of LCD I have every worked with. I *really* don't understand how Apple engineers have come up with this one.

Stay away of this beautiful (the lcd quality is amazing when there no reflection) piece of junk....

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

Tech Problem with it after a few weeks

Written by KL from Rathfarnham

Sep 12, 2009

Worked great for first few weeks and then blank screen! Tech guy at Apple says he has seen the problem with others - Be really careful buying one of these unless you can get to Apple retailer easily - as they are bulky-I am now stuck having to transport it to industrial estate miles away - Nightmare stuff!

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

Waste and disappointment

Written by JT from Dulles

Aug 21, 2009

After waiting almost 3-weeks for the display, I was very disappointed when opening the box I immediately noticed the micro-dvi connector and realized what a mistake I had made. My daughter has a 7-month old Macbook and the external monitor was a gift. Naturally, her laptop has the mini-dvi connector. Well, thinking that perhaps some smart individual at Apple had made an adapter, I called internationally/skype (I work for State Department in Nepal) and spent over an hour on the phone with a tech who said, yes we have an adapter and let me get you that part number. It took him 50-minutes to find the item and by then I was suspicious. As he processed my order I asked for the part number and did a quick google search. Part was nothing close to what I needed and had I purchased it, it would have been more money down the drain. Why make a product with limited use....was enough to sour me on all APPLE products. This one is going back...At APPLE's EXPENSE and I'll purchase a Sony or similar monitor for my daughter.

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

Gorgeous color, but TOTALLY unusable screen!!

Written by RA from Fullerton

Aug 18, 2009

Generally, I love the stuff Steve Jobs and team produce, which is why I'm so shocked by the poor performance of this thing. While the color is good, the high-gloss screen is so shiny that I can't use it in my office, can't use it at home, can't use it anywhere there's a window or light on! Seriously.

Don't waste your money.

Another thing: I've tried a few of the anti-glare screen covers and they don't work either!

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

Cord Length a very serious issue...

Written by JR from Victoria

Jul 4, 2009

Apple boasts that you can connect up to eight Apple Displays to the Mac Pro, but what they don't tell you is that you can't position them in any decent viewing place as the cables on these monitors are tooo bloody short, and non extendable (save for hacking off the end and making your own extensions...) how non-apple of a thing to do.
Terribly disappointed, terribly.

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

Bad Design .... What is apple thinking?

Written by TJ from North Yorkshire

May 20, 2009

Do not get me wrong, it looks fantastic and has good quality. But what was apple thinking when they fitted it with a "fixed" 1 meter cable that has a mini-DV plug at the end of the cable which does not even reach my PC case. How are you gonna design a new format plug that you do not bother to put accessories I.E extension cables etc. on the market. Have you ever thought that if you put 2 x 24 cinema displays on your desk .... that one of your displays cables will not reach to plug into your Mac Pro? The 24" cinema display has a "Male mini-DV" plug on it, the only device that you have made with a "Female mini-DV" socket is the video card ... So how do you "Brainiacs" suggest your clients bridge the gap to get the second display connected other than placing your Mac Pro directly behind the displays which is about as stupid as this design.

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

FOR LAPTOP, NOT FOR DESKTOP: Cable too short and startup issues

Written by SS from Pittsburgh

Apr 30, 2009

AGH! The cable length on these new 24" displays is like a meter: great for laptop users who will use only one monitor and want a nice neat cabling system (even comes with a passthrough MagSafe power adapter; i.e. save your existing charger for your travel bag).

BUT alas, I bought two for my MacPro and had to cobble a solution: drilled a hole in my desk exactly between the two monitors--couldn't use existing corner hole or go straight back over the desk--and then have the back of the MacPro directly under that hole. Also note, Apple doesn't sell a mini-displayport extension cable (opposite to their realizing they needed one for their keyboards).

ALSO, fired up my MacPro for the first time and nothing came up on the monitors, and they don't have a power button, this is a huge issue I'm still dealing with!

FINAL THOUGHT: Go with the 30" if you have the MacPro (or can I say another vendor for 24", one with standard DIV connector?)--save yourself the trouble!

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

I want my money back!

Written by AT

Apr 16, 2009

It worked fine the first couple of weeks. After that, the display is not recognized by my MacBook Pro. It only shows one resolution: 640x480. Nothing close to the promised 1920x1200. I hate it! I want my money back!

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

short cable - ugh! bad apple

Written by CN from Brooklyn

Apr 13, 2009

Just bought a LED CInema display and Mac Pro.
The display looks beautiful and works like a dream ... BUT only with my MAC BOOK PRO. !?#%^&?

I can't use it with my Mac Pro because the cable for the display is too short and there are no extenders available. The add says the display will work with Mac Pro but does not say they have to next to each other.

I'm very disappointed. I have two friends that that will delay their purchase of this same set up until the problem is resolved. The LED display should come with an extension cable for use with MAC PRO. They should offer free extensions to all that purchased the display.

I'm all for clean desktop with connecting MBP to LED CD but this short cable is such an obvious oversight.

HENCE, 1 star.

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

TOo tOo Glossy...For industry Pro.

Written by MN from NEW YORK

Apr 5, 2009

I'm a serious retoucher and there is no way I can work with such a glossy screen. TOO reflective even in total darkness the is reflection. Not that its a bad thing but not I just not for serious Professional. Already loosing to Samsung and Eizo in terms of direct control and profile with ONLY brightness control and now with a glossy scereen?? Will have to get Eizo now although is more expensive but worth every cent.

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

Apple's big misstep

Written by DS from North Hollywood

Apr 3, 2009

I've owned nothing but Apple products since the early 80's. I was hoping to purchase 6 new 24" monitors for my creative agency, but was stunned to find that Apple only makes these monitors with glossy screens. These are impossible to use at a design studio for reasons mentioned numerous times below. The only option they've left designers is to pay $1800 for the 30", which is too expensive and overkill, size-wise.

Apple has really dropped the ball on this one by ignoring what has been its core demographic for a very long time. For the first time, I'm left with no choice but to purchase monitors from a third party, and Apple drove me right to their doorstep. What in the world are they thinking?

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

Glossy screen is very distracting.

Written by AN from San Francisco

Apr 1, 2009

I didn't purchase this monitor for the sole reason that the screen is so glossy that I found it to be very distracting. I actually purchased one of the older models of Apple 23" monitors (which I love) because it is so important to me to not have the glossy sheen. When you are designing on a monitor all day long, the last thing you want to be able to see is your own reflection staring back at you from your monitor. I am a long time user of apple products, and this is the first time I can remember that Apple did not offer users a matte screen option. I really hope that Apple re-thinks the glossy screens on both laptops and displays as soon as possible.

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

24" GLOSSY screen

Written by JM from ORMOND BEACH

Mar 30, 2009

This would't be a bad display if it had two options.Matte screen and additional input connections. As it's currently offered its unusable in professional applications due to the glossy only screen. GLoss screens unnaturally boost contrast which of course does not display on finished printed materials.

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

There is an image on the screen? Sorry I couldn't see with all that glare.

Written by ES from Brooklyn

Mar 27, 2009

Title really says it all. Consumers ruin everything.

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Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel)

Cord too short for Mac Pro

Written by JE from Cincinnati

Mar 23, 2009

This screen is beautiful. The resolution is great and its very attractive, but the cord is too short. Apple can't expect you to have your Mac Pro up on your desk next to the monitor. I think this monitor is fantastic, but the short cord is completely idiotic. I'm an Apple fan through and through, but this really makes me mad. Apple, please resolve tehis by giving Mac Pro owners an extension for the MiniDVI and USB, don't need one for the power cord.

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