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I thought I might just go check specs on that Apple 22" Cinema Display that brings out such a sweat in me. And once again, I get to experience the speed of technology change. The display has listed resolution of 1600 by 1024 pixels (and the price is now $2999 -- $1000 less than when released). If you haven't seen one, find one; it's worth the experience just to make a detour.
Notheless, this is less than the Dell Inspiron (at 1600 x 1200 pixels) that Jon mentioned earlier (albeit on a much smaller screen).
< ;-) > ... maybe when it's $1999, I'll buy it ... </ ;-) >
Still dreaming, Jerry.
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Jerry L. Archibald systemObjectivesIncorporated ____________________________
I've seen it and the number of pixels is wonderful, but you still can't read PDF on it .....
I'd like to see the Dell Inspiron. Sounds like it has a much denser pitch ....
Cheers,
Alan
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At 11:01 AM -0500 2/27/01, JArchibald@aol.com wrote:
All--
I thought I might just go check specs on that Apple 22" Cinema Display that brings out such a sweat in me. And once again, I get to experience the speed of technology change. The display has listed resolution of 1600 by 1024 pixels (and the price is now $2999 -- $1000 less than when released). If you haven't seen one, find one; it's worth the experience just to make a detour.
Notheless, this is less than the Dell Inspiron (at 1600 x 1200 pixels) that Jon mentioned earlier (albeit on a much smaller screen).
< ;-) > ... maybe when it's $1999, I'll buy it ... </ ;-) >
Still dreaming, Jerry.
Jerry L. Archibald systemObjectivesIncorporated ____________________________
Alan Kay Alan.Kay@disney.com is widely believed to have written:
I've seen it and the number of pixels is wonderful, but you still can't read PDF on it .....
It's not just the pixel pitch, it's also how well the fonts and lines are rendered. My Acorn machine runs an Apple 15" LCD monitor at 1024*768, 16bpp. Its port of xpdf uses the Acorn antialiased fonts and antialiased line drawing system calls to produce extremely clear results; way, way better than any of my Macs or linux machines can do. Unfortunately, the port of xpdf has quite a few other sorts of bugs that ruin the overall experience :-( Nonetheless, a good antialiasing drawing engine can produce good results even when the pixel pitch is not particuarly good. In fact Acorn originally developed their code to try to make decent visual quality available on the terrible 604*480 14" monitors that were all that mere mortals could afford in 1989. Oh, and on the TVs that many used in the UK in those far off days.
tim
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