minimax said:There are other TFT screens besides Apple and Dell you know. Dell doesnt manufacture their own screens (LG/Philips do) so I wonder why everybody is so lyrical about an average screen that's half the price of the Apple. With the apple you pay for an incredible finish so boosting your cheap Dell as half the price of the Apple is like boosting your dell computer is half the price of a powermac.
But Apple uses the same panel too.
Wouldn't you take your dual G5 PowerMac tower in a standard hum-drum PC case, if it meant you could save half the price? Especially if it also happened to come with, say, dual optical drives and quad DVI output, too?
I sure would - I don't care THAT much about the fancy aluminum enclosure. Function and price over form.
If the price differential was a little smaller, I might have been swayed to stick with Apple's 20" display, but at this price, I could have bought the Dell 20" AND AN ENTIRE NEW MAC (ie. Mac mini) for the same price as Apple wants for its 20" display.
Sorry, I'm a loyal Apple user, but I'm not blindly loyal. It's the same LCD panel, same quality display, better features, crappier enclosure (but not that bad, really), half the price. That matters.