I'm a Mac user, so I just bought an Apple cinema display. Yessss, the 23" sucka. Fact #1: Overall, the price is more than competitive, and beat out everything in its class at a couple of different showrooms (MicroCenter, CompUSA, Best Buy).
Their quality control is excellent in this department. We have two Apple stores here in Minneapolis, each with two or three of these big displays out for evaluation. One was rather dim, but noticed that the mac it was attached to had an older, feebler graphics card in it, why, I do not know. Compound that with the Apple drones saying horrific things like "well, it is about a year old..." promting heavy internet research on my part before purchase. Happily enough, I found enough anecdotal evidence to support my buying decision/technolust. The display is the best thing I could have done for myself at this point in time, and I went and did it. I know the ADC-to-outside-world-adapter does cost another small hunk of cash, but I would highly recommend this display to anyone on any platform.
Should mention that I tortured the Apple sales guy for at least an hour comparing and contrasting merits of the 20" vs. the 23". I did find the 20" to be brighter, but maybe, think about it, too bright! Contrast was higher too, adding a bit more detail in the 20". In the end, I'm glad I bought the extra pixels.
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The ADC is a great piece of engineering - and the USB ports on the back of the beast are very handy too!
Their quality control is excellent in this department. We have two Apple stores here in Minneapolis, each with two or three of these big displays out for evaluation. One was rather dim, but noticed that the mac it was attached to had an older, feebler graphics card in it, why, I do not know. Compound that with the Apple drones saying horrific things like "well, it is about a year old..." promting heavy internet research on my part before purchase. Happily enough, I found enough anecdotal evidence to support my buying decision/technolust. The display is the best thing I could have done for myself at this point in time, and I went and did it. I know the ADC-to-outside-world-adapter does cost another small hunk of cash, but I would highly recommend this display to anyone on any platform.
Should mention that I tortured the Apple sales guy for at least an hour comparing and contrasting merits of the 20" vs. the 23". I did find the 20" to be brighter, but maybe, think about it, too bright! Contrast was higher too, adding a bit more detail in the 20". In the end, I'm glad I bought the extra pixels.