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

[dutky]

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."