Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Thoughts on a mid 09 17" mbp, 3.06 core 2 duo, 4 gb ram, 500gb hdd. How much would you pay?

Core 2 Duo, old as hell! iPhone 5s geek benches higher than C2D's...

^ +1

No point getting that, you should be able to get a more recent macbook with better spec for same kind of monies, or just a bit more which will be well worth it

So the big and shiny and stupidly expensive thunderbolt display. Who's got one, what are your thoughts?

looked at getting one when i hit the injury jackpot last year. decided it's a one-trick pony in that you can literally only use it for thunderbolt devices which doesnt seem to have taken off as well as apple had hoped yet.

ended up getting one of these instead for a touch over £200

Dell Ultrasharp U2412M 24 inch IPS Widescreen LED Monitor: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

might not be fantastic color reproduction for graphics work but otherwise a faultless screen for the money. use a hdmi to dvi adapter for my ps3/xbox and displayport for my mac mini.

can also get a soundbar for it for about £12.

So the big and shiny and stupidly expensive thunderbolt display. Who's got one, what are your thoughts?

Daft overpriced... BUT... I couldn't face a non apple monitor after my old silver ACD died, found a second hand pre Thunderbolt one and very pleased with it, less cables than my old ACD, and it looks beautiful, which at the end of the day does actually matter. The grill underneath is a fantastic piece of industrial product design.

already got a dell 24 ultrasharp (and soundbar, somewhere). Just want something a little larger and quite like the whole everything-dealt-with idea behind the thunderbolt one. I've used enough of the Korean 27s to know that they do the pixels just fine but the product design grates me a little. now I've started down the road of overpriced shiny things it's hard to turn back :/

Do it.
Although maybe S/H?
So over priced, but so nice...

On our table of 4 designers we have the Dell display ciq mentioned up there and 2 Apple displays (old one and thunderbolt one) and a 27" iMac.

Without doubt (except the imac) Thunderbolt is the best display. Dell is shite when it comes to colour. But if it was me i'd spend a little extra and get a used/refurb imac 27" and stick an SSD into it as opposed to brand new display.

shhhhh. Do not need another computer in the house.

looks at refurb prices

might be worth cross-posting in the designers thread as I imagine you'll get a bigger group of actual users on there as they seem to mostly be bought by designers.

buy a korean 27 and pay someone to 3d print you a nice bezel. would probably still save hundreds.

imac's can also act as a second display through the thunderbolt port (for thunderbolt devices only not displayport)

it's called display target mode or something.

Oh, they had refurb ones for 650 recently! BUY BUY BUY!

Aye. and cheapest 27 refurb at the moment is only £300 more than the display.
But then I do most of my work from home and I'd never use my mental laptop if I got the imac.
£650 for a 27? where?!

use the imac internals as a media server and keep the laptop for mental design work.

Apple store... last week though, obvs all gone now...
What laptop do you have? I only bought a new display as my Mini is fairly decent and I got a cheap 24inch (pre thunderbolt) one.
Was very close to getting an iMac instead... next purchase will be one... can't stand laptops.

I prefer the alu bezelled ones, don't like the happy colours you get on new iMac / thunderbolt displays. Everything looks great on it, but looks flat on other screens, which is what most people use to look at the work I produce

I've got a mental spec mbpr 15, which was a relatively recent acquisition that I'm not keen to obselesce any time soon. Will keep my eyes open for refurb screens, no hurry.
Got my mac mini for media server duties.
Basically already got products for every niche the imac would fill bar screen :/

£260 for a 23" alu cinema display, hard to argue with

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/APPLE-23-INCH-CINEMA-DISPLAY-POWER-ADAPTER-FAST-DELIVERY-/261292244949?pt=UK_Computing_ComputerComponents_Monitors&hash=item3cd63b3fd5

Dunno if a modern macbook pro could run the 30" one? Think it required two dvi cables?

Scrap that: http://store.apple.com/uk/question/answers/product/MB571Z/A/does-this-connector-connect-a-thunderbolt-port-to-a-duallink-dvi-adapter-for-30-cinema-display/Q9KYKAKDPAACAH4KH

I'd go LED backlit over CFL though ..

Post late 2008

I've got a mental spec mbpr 15, which was a relatively recent acquisition that I'm not keen to obselesce any time soon. Will keep my eyes open for refurb screens, no hurry.
Got my mac mini for media server duties.
Basically already got products for every niche the imac would fill bar screen :/

BOOM... 15inch MBPr is pretty bad boy, obv dont need an iMac which would be a fair bit slower.
Thunderbolt display it is then! Rude not to... would you consider Gumtree? Seen a couple on there for 500...

It is a thing of monstrous beauty. Will have a look around and see what comes up.

£260 for a 23" alu cinema display, hard to argue with

No point going smaller than the 24 I have already, 30 may be too big for the room :/
(but curious, will look into that)

You can buy monitors from ebay which have the same insides as an apple screen, just without Ive's shiny outside bits. And are half the price.

Yeah, but the outside that matters...