Apple Set to Ship New HD Cinema Displays
July 09, 2004
Cupertino, CA - Apple's new family of widescreen flat panel displays, including a 30-inch Apple Cinema HD display LCD with 2560-by-1600 pixel resolution, will be available this summer, the company has announced.
The new displays offer the widescreen design (16:10 ratio) coveted by creative professionals who want access to more horizontal workspace. The Apple Cinema HD 30-inch display, called the industry's largest high definition display with its 2560-by-1600 pixel resolution, and the 23-inch Apple Cinema HD display with its 1920-by-1200 pixel resolution are both capable of displaying High Definition Television (HDTV) content with room to spare.
The new 20-inch Apple Cinema Display professional-quality flat panel offers a 1680-by-1050 pixel resolution, more than enough room to edit images with all of the palettes on-screen.
The new displays feature dual FireWire and dual USB 2.0 ports built into the display and use the industry standard DVI interface for a pure digital connection with Apple’s latest Power Mac and PowerBook systems, as well as PCs with a DVI connector. Two 30-inch Cinema Displays can be driven simultaneously from Apple’s new Power Mac line of desktop workstations, offering professional users a desktop of 8 million pixels.
The new Apple Cinema Displays feature an all new aluminum design with a very thin bezel, suspended by an aluminum stand with an adjustable hinge that makes tilting the display almost effortless. Each Cinema Display features two FireWire 400 ports and two USB 2.0 ports, making attachment of desktop peripherals, such as a keyboard, mouse, iPod, iSight, digital and still camera, hard drive, printer and scanner, even more accessible and convenient.
The new displays support the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) mounting interface standard. Customers with the optional Cinema Display VESA Mount Adapter kit can mount their display in locations most appropriate for their work environment.
The 20-inch Cinema Display and the 23-inch Cinema HD Display are designed to work with DVI equipped Power Macs, PowerBooks and Windows-based computers. The advanced design of Apple’s breakthrough 30-inch Cinema HD Display requires the high-performance NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card and a Power Mac G5 professional desktop. Providing the most advanced graphics architecture available, the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card offers the latest graphics programmability for on-screen cinematic realism and an astounding bandwidth throughput of up to 35.2 GB/sec to support incredibly high pixel fill rates of 6.4 billion texels a second. The first card to provide support for two high resolution dual link interfaces, the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card provides two DVI connectors so that two 30-inch Cinema HD Displays can be used with the Power Mac G5 desktop, resulting in an unprecedented amount of screen workspace.
The 20-inch Apple Cinema Display and 23-inch Apple Cinema HD Display will be available in July, and the 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display will be available in August, for a suggested retail price of $1,299, $1,999 and $3,299, respectively. The $599 card will be available as a built to order option and as a standalone kit in August 2004.
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