Apple's fabulous new 24" LED Cinema Display
Yesterday, Apple also introduced a fabulous new 24" LED Cinema Display with a bright LED-backlit screen surrounded by black glass, iSight camera, microphone and speakers. It looks like a chin-less 24" iMac and is the perfect external display for a new MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air.
The $899 24" LED Cinema Display has a three-headed cable that combines a MagSafe connector for charging your 'Book, a mini DisplayPort connector for the video signal and a USB 2.0 connector for the 3-port USB 2.0 hub. Its maximum resolution is 1920x1200 pixels, the same as Apple's $899 23" Cinema Display, but it looks thinner because the back is curved and the edges are thinner like an iMac.
If you have a new MacBook or Pro or Air, you are good to go with this new display because it has the new mini DisplayPort. Unfortunately, Apple does not list an adapter for earlier 'Books or Mac Pros. Perhaps, a third party will develop one in time if Apple will license the mini DisplayPort [Correction: The Mini DisplayPort, according to Apple, "...defines a new license-free, royalty-free, digital audio/video interconnect, intended to be used primarily between a computer and its display monitor, or a computer and a home-theater system". Thanks to James Reid for pointing this out--Bill.] I sure hope so because this display would be a great less expensive replacement if my 30" Cinema Display were ever to conk out. [Bill Fox]
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