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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:A few reasons for this decision by foobar104 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    CRTs are nearly and order of magnitude less expensive

    Forgive me if I'm being overly anal, but I see the phrase ``an order of magnitude'' misused far more often than it's used correctly. An order of magnitude is a multiple of 10. For example, 1,000 is one order of magnitude bigger than 100, and two orders of magnitude smaller than 100,000.

    Do you seriously mean that LCDs are ten times more expensive than CRTs? I don't have any specific information one way or the other, but that doesn't sound right to me.

  2. Re:A few reasons for this decision by dadragon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hyperbole
    n.

    A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

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  3. Re:A few reasons for this decision by amichalo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    to clarify, I do mean to state 10 times less expensive - a 15" CRT (at BestBuy, OfficeMax, etc) can be had for $49. Meanwhile, 15" LCD's routinely command more than $500. ...atleast in my experience

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  4. Re:A few reasons for this decision by dutky · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    As I remember it from college physics, an order of magnitude is approximately ten times. We were taught to think of orders of magnitude and changes within given ranges: The first order of magnitude was any value between 0.3 and 3.0, second order between 3.0 and 30.0, third order between 30.0 and 300.0, fourth order between 300.0 and 3000.0, and so on. (why did we put boundries at decade multiples of three? I don't quire remember, but it had something to do with logarithms)

    Given this definition of an order of magnitude, we can see that CRTs are priced in the third order of magnitude, while LCDs are, except for the very best bargains, in the fourth order: one order of magnitude difference.

    P.S., a cartoon I once saw in a lab at university, shows two scientists standing in front of a chalk board, one talking to the other, the caption reads: "It's within an order of magnitude, in other words it's completely wrong."