Specifications

Apple LCD Benefits
From their precision color technology to their head-turning design, Apple Cinema
Displays deliver sharp text and stunning colors from edge to edge. Not only do Apple
displays offer advantages over CRT displays, but they also offer advantages over
competitors’ LCD displays.
The display is an integral part of your computing experience. That’s why Apple pays
as much attention to creating quality displays as to creating powerful computers
and innovative software. Whether you choose the 20-inch Apple Cinema Display,
the 23-inch Apple Cinema HD Display, or the 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display,
you’ll enjoy a wide viewing angle, fast responsiveness, a pure digital connection,
and seamless integration with the other components of your Macintosh system.
Optimized for Graphics and Text: A Balanced Design
Apple strives for the ideal combination of size, resolution, and format in the design
of each of its displays. Other display manufacturers start their designs with a monitor
size that optimizes manufacturing efficiency. Apple works closely with suppliers to
specify wide-format designs that meet the requirements of creative professionals—
who need to see two-page layouts at full size with room for palettes and menus,
HD video content at full resolution, or complex genetic sequences.
Apple has determined that the ideal balance between monitor size and number of
pixels is approximately 100 pixels per inch (ppi). At 100 ppi, the display is optimized
for images, yet it allows you to work easily with applications that require manipulation
of text, such as sophisticated type treatments in layouts.
Wide-Viewing-Angle Technology
What distinguishes Apple displays from many other LCDs is the technology used to
extend the viewing angle. Without it, colors viewed off-axis can shift in color, contrast,
gamma or all three attributes. Off-axis color consistency is especially important in
displays that have a wide aspect ratio, as pioneered in the Apple Cinema Display line.
An inferior wide-viewing-angle technology could cause significant perceived variations
between a color in the middle of the screen and the same color in the corner of a
wide-format display.
The technology used in Apple displays is the best in the industry at minimizing color
shift at wide angles. LCDs that use other viewing-angle technologies can’t measure up
to the off-axis color performance of an Apple display.
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Technology Overview
Apple Cinema Displays