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Apple Sticks with CRTs For Now

Posted by pudge on from the switching-res-on-LCDs-stinks-anyway dept.

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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  1. Re:LCD prices by BigBir3d · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    (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    To summarize, this is a nice screen but the display panel is one generation out of date.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!