Cinema Display 20" 1680x1050 TCO95
An Apple Cinema Display lets you focus on your creative endeavors without your tools getting in the way. You’ll have plenty of space to edit images with all palettes onscreen. Or view multiple video streams with Final Cut Express. Or decode a genomic sequence. Wide screen is also perfect for editing and testing Web page design at the same time. Like its larger sibling, the 20-inch Apple Cinema Display is a work of art on your desktop, both inside and out. You won’t be able to take your eyes off it, so it’s a good thing the LCD technology gives you flicker-free images with twice the brightness, twice the sharpness, and twice the contrast ratio of the typical CRT display. And unlike other flat panel displays, it’s designed with a pure digital interface to deliver distortion-free images that never need adjusting. That means you can lose the controls other monitors actually tout as if they are a benefit. And with an analog CRT monitor, you did need all that horizontal and fine tracking, and vertical and horizontal positioning controls to get just the right image. And the higher resolution you get, the more fiddling you'd have to do to ensure accurate color. The 20-inch Apple Cinema Display, however, only has one setting: brightness. And that’s only since it’s a little hard for our engineers in Cupertino to determine how much is appropriate for the lighting conditions in your office, much less your personal taste in the matter. The rest of the controls can be eliminated because the video signal remains purely digital all the way from the memory on the graphics card through the Apple Display Connector (ADC) to the display. And once they get to the screen video and digital images are stunning. The 16.7 million colors are vivid and true-to-life, and text is sharp and a joy to read. What’s more, a wide viewing angle ensures uniform color from edge to edge, and Apple’s ColorSync technology enables you to create custom profiles to maintain consistent color onscreen and in print.
