Apple Sticks with CRTs For Now

A reader writes, "eWEEK talked with Apple about the state of its hardware line at Macworld Expo/New York, six months after Apple said it was going all-flat panel with future Macs. Greg Joswiak, senior director, hardware products, with Apple worldwide product marketing, says that while LCD Macs are still 'the future,' surprise boosts in flat-panel prices mean CRT systems like the eMac and old-school iMac will stick around a while longer."

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Re:A few reasons for this decision

[foobar104]

It's only hyperbole if the exaggeration is apparent to the reader. If I said, ``CRTs are a billion times less expensive than LCDs,'' that would be hyperbole. If I said, ``CRTs are half as expensive,'' that's not hyperbole, because it's not clear whether it's exaggeration for effect, or just a surprising fact. To use your example, ``This book weighs five pounds'' is an exaggeration if the book weighs, in fact, three pounds. But it's not hyperbole, because it's not clear to the reader that it's intended to be exaggeration for effect.

The issue is further complicated by the use of the phrase, ``an order of magnitude.'' That's a very precise term, which implies a statement of fact, not exaggeration for effect.

Re:LCD prices

[BigBir3d]

(Why is it people constantly compare apples share of the market to the SUM OF ALL OTHER COMPANIES COMBINED and then say apple's a small company? Its one of the largest computer companies in the world and for a long time was the largest.)

A little thing called reality.

To summarize, this is a nice screen but the display panel is one generation out of date. A much faster response time would have been infinitely preferable. Mac users who want to play with their screens really ought to opt for a different LCD monitor... if the video output socket on their monitors lets them do so, of course.

That was from a review in March!

possibly exclusive to apple

Exclusive means no-one else sells it. Last I checked, Dell, Gateway, HP-Compaq all were of a larger market share than Apple. Not to mention all of the LCD's that ae sold seperate by the manufacturers.

Apple owns %30 of the company that makes the LCDs

So? 30% is a minority, not a majority. The factory has other investosr/s of higher importance, who get what they want first because they own more, and contribute more to the profitability of the factory.

As for Apple itself, Wallstreet is not impressed:

Analyst Andrew Neff cites the disappointing rollout of the new flat-panel iMac

As for better pricing? A Dell, for $1827 has double the memory, 20GB bigger HDD, surround sound with subwoofer, 3 year warranty, and MS Word. Everything else is comparable, except GeForce 4 MX in the Dell versus 2 MX in the iMac. Both have the "superdrive," 15" LCD, music, photo, and video editing software (apple's is nicer though). For $20 you can get a USB 2 card for the Dell. Plus, were are talking a P4 2.0 GHz, with PC 800 RD RAM, not PC133.

OSX does kick ass, but it is sooo slow. My friend has a G3 Powerbook, and it is nearly unusable, and that is with 1 GB of RAM!