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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."
Probably true for the most part, but I would think that there are a large number of 'normal' users would be more interested in the space saving features of a flat panel over a CRT, and I think this would be the biggest selling point to your average user, not the difference in quality as you stated.
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Foremost, to compete in the low end market where the CRT iMac lead Apple's sales
You know what would sell even better? A pizza-box based on the eMac motherboard with no monitor included at all. Sure the aesthetics won't be perfect, but the shipping cost savings alone would easily let Apple slash the price.
(...and/or include a few useful expansion options like an AGP slot, a PCI slot, and an open bay...)
As another poster said, the average user would likely be interested in the space-saving properties of a flat-panel LCD screen. However, talking to the designer of some mind-bendingly amazing graphics has given me the impression that LCD screens don't have adequate colour response for most professionals in the graphic design field. Since Apple prides itself on having a large userbase of graphic designers, it makes sense for them to keep CRTs an option.
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No, I think it was more of a general OS/network issue. From my own experience, Mozilla seemed a lot 'snappier' on a Windows box than it did on my TiBook... but I still prefer my TiBook for general use. ;)
For $129, Jaguar better be faster.
Screen refresh rates are in Hz, which is a frequency. I don't remember much from my physics days, but a screen refresh of 75 Hz means it refreshes 75 times per second.
Even if Apple used slow monitors, it would only be slow by 1 or 2 seventy-fifths of a second. In short, impossible to notice.
Where you do notice this is with shadows or cursors and things. Nobody wants movement shadows (they look horrible on DVDs and games).
As far as I know, however, Apple flatscreens have EXCELLENT refresh rates. Since that's up for debate, I'll simply retain my original point. Web browsing using a Mac is not a monitor issue.