I don't have dual 30" displays at home -- I have one 30" (2560x1600) and one 23" (2048x1152).

It's nice. Except that I have to stack them, and linux doesn't handle the up-down transition as nicely as the side-to-side transition (you can't drag windows to a different display when going up-down).

Definitely wouldn't like having displays stacked vertically... nor different sizes!

I have two different sized monitors, and they're vertically stacked:

(Old pic is old. I really need to take a new one.)

That said, they're much smaller than what Dusty is using. Sometime Real Soon Now I'm buying a Mac desktop, and will then be tasked with buying a new monitor. I do like the two-smaller-monitors paradigm vs. one big one. I find the Apple 30" difficult to use. It's so damn big I have to sit farther away than normal, which means jacking up the font sizes. I also lose track of the pointer sometimes.

I have two stacked 25" displays (HP) at work for the Mac Pro. They work great and cost less than one Apple display of comparable size. I have always thought the Apple displays were pricey beyond their worth.

I don't have a choice in the matter until I clean up my room enough to rearrange things.

I should point out that there's a reason some people pay a premium for Apple displays, and it's not so the little logos match. For video and still frame editors, proper gamma and color accuracy are essential. Even with the user of a monitor sucker fish, it can be difficult or impossible to get many LCD panels to behave properly. Of course what srs bsns pros (and amateurs with srsly deep pockets) use isn't AAPL, it's Eizo.

I do think the Apple monitors have better quality control and style then Dell's IPS monitors, just can't justify the price. For non-profession photo editors, that typical response time is double that of contenders and would not be good at all for gamers.

Someone told me once, a couple of years ago, that the LCD panel in the Apple monitors was sourced by Samsung, but not sure that's true anymore.

It used to be the case that Apple's panels were the best binned that Samsung had to offer. I do not know if that is still true.

So my acquaintance wasn't misinformed. It'd be possible then, were that still true, finding a Samsung monitor with similar performance to Apple`s models for a way lower price. Eventually with worse QC.

Are those monitors the very same the iMac sports?

What about the possibility of an OEM relationship between Apple and Samsung?

Yeah, that's what we're discussing, the point is knowing if they still have that relationship, or is Apple sourcing their LCDs elsewhere

Really tho, it doesn't really matter who apple sources their displays from, if they're pickier about what they get than the OEM is about what they sell to the public. It's not like you can go spend 1/3 as much and get the same quality display (unless you get VERY VERY lucky)

Very true. It depends on how picky you're about quality and if you really need an Apple display. Maybe it's a good deal having the OEM display at 1/2 the price if you're getting 90% of the performance.

No what I mean by OEM is an exclusivity deal rather than having a QC guy pick and choose..

Oh I see, so that Samsung or another manufacturer is producing those panels but only for Apple and not selling the same under their own brand. It could be, I don't know how frequent is that.

Quick View works in FFX popup dialog boxes. Mind = blown.

Completely unreferrenced rumor, but...

Apple Rumored To Be Launching a 24 Bit HD Music Product For iTunes - Audiophile Review

It really would be cool. Claire likes the iTunes store and I refuse to use it. If there was an option of hi-rez I would definitely buy stuff there.

That would be very very cool.

It really would be cool. Claire likes the iTunes store and I refuse to use it. If there was an option of hi-rez I would definitely buy stuff there.

X2. I've not bought a single music download from iTunes. I'd be very interested in an HD download store that had great selection and convenience!

I use iTunes all the time. This would make me very happy.

I use iTunes all the time. This would make me very happy.

Same.

Steve Jobs takes medical leave from Apple, Tim Cook taking over daily operations in his absence. Hoo-boy.

just found out that osx doesnt natively write to ntfs partitions. it is not possible for me to convert file systems to fat as about half my files are over 4gb. i did just find a few software fixes to get around the whole write issue. can anyone comment on the performance of these software fixes (write speeds with the fix vs write speeds on windows). are there any file systems that work for both operating systems? i am trying to make a final decision between a mba and mbp. just found out about parallels so wont really NEED a pc to run annoying math programs. vmware vs parallels? are there any nice (free, i still use dev c++) ide's for c++ for macs? i am assuming people do program on macs.

edit: bloody fuck on a stick. 8gb ram for macs is some $400. i dont know how much of a memory hog osx is but will i run into any issues with osx and windows 7 running together with parallels or vmware? currently have 8gb in my thinkpad and nothing that i use software wise pages out.

Edited January 21, 201115 yr by crappyjones123