| Designed for the new MacBook family of laptops, the Apple LED Cinema Display features a stunning 24-inch LED-backlit widescreen display with built-in iSight video camera, mic and speakers in an elegant, thin aluminum and glass enclosure. It also includes an integrated MagSafe charger, three USB 2.0 ports and the new Mini DisplayPort, making it easy for MacBook users to quickly connect and power their notebooks as well as use their favorite peripherals. 
Expand the screen of your new MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air (notebook not included); see larger version. | The 24-inch glossy, widescreen display with 1920 x 1200 pixel resolution uses LED-backlit technology to provide instant full-screen brightness and great power efficiency. LEDs are solid-state light sources that light up very quickly, so there’s no waiting for your display when you connect your new MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air. With the built-in iSight camera, microphone, and speakers, you can connect your new MacBook--leaving it open or closed--and engage in video chats or listen to music just as you would with a desktop computer. The LED Cinema Display includes a MagSafe connector that powers and charges your new MacBook. The connector sits on your desk, ready and waiting--no need to unravel the cord to the power adapter that came with your notebook. On the back of the display, you’ll find three self-powered USB ports that are enabled the moment you plug the USB connector into your new MacBook. Connect a printer, camera, iPod, iPhone, USB hard drive... and they can stay connected so you can just grab your MacBook and go. Tilt the LED Cinema Display to get the viewing angle that’s best for your work environment. With its smooth-motion hinge, adjustment is effortless. Choose an angle anywhere from -5 to 25 degrees. Part of the next-generation DisplayPort industry standard, the new Mini DisplayPort delivers a pure digital signal that can drive up to a 30-inch widescreen display. The Mini DisplayPort is ultra-compact at just 10 percent the size of a full DVI connector, perfect for the sleek design of the new MacBook family. Adapters are available for using the MacBook’s Mini DisplayPort with older generation VGA, DVI/HDMI and Dual-Link DVI displays. The new LED Cinema Display is the greenest Apple display ever, made with mercury-free LED technology, arsenic-free glass and highly recyclable materials. The LED Cinema Display meets stringent Energy Star 4.0 requirements and achieves EPEAT Gold status. The new display contains no brominated flame retardants, all internal cables and components are PVC-free and its foam packaging has been reduced by 44 percent. Specifications
- Compatibility: MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro systems with Mini DisplayPort
- Display: 24-inch (viewable) LED-backlit thin film transistor (TFT) active-matrix liquid crystal display
- Supported resolutions: 1920 by 1200, 1280 by 800, 1024 by 640 pixels
- Display colors (maximum): 16.7 million
- Viewing angle: 178° horizontal; 178° vertical
- Brightness (typical): 330 cd/m2
- Contrast ratio (typical): 1000:1
- Response time (typical): 14 ms
- Audio: Built-in 2.1 speaker system
- Maximum power: 212W (LED Cinema Display while charging MacBook Pro)
- Energy saver mode: 1W or less
- Connections: Three self-powered USB 2.0 ports; one cable with three connectors: Mini DisplayPort, MagSafe, USB 2.0
- Dimensions: 22.57 x 18.84 x 7.76 inches
- Weight: 21 pounds
What's in the Box
Apple LED Cinema Display, AC power cord, cleaning cloth, printed documentation |
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 A fabulous display. Some reviews here are quite bogus. |
| Review Date: January 30, 2009 |
| Reviewer: I. R. Smart., Seattle, WA |
I've owned this display a few months (just got the wife one this week, too!), and it's a FANTASTIC display. I moved from my original Apple 23" Cinema Display to this 24" LED Cinema Display, and don't regret it for a second. The screen is incredibly vivid, and if you don't have any obvious windows behind you, the glare from the glass is a non-issue. This holds true for Apple's current notebook lineup.
What I'm really tired of is people complaining that it only works with the Mini-displayport-equipped notebooks. While this is TRUE, it's not like Apple is hiding it from anyone. It says so right on the box! Apple is switching all its equipment, as they have said, to mini displayport. End of story. If you don't have a new Apple notebook, you can't use the display! Go get a different display! Nobody is forcing you to buy this one!
Now, getting back to the review, some might complain that the better part of nine-hundred dollars is a lot of money for a 24" display. But there is a reason for the price-tag. Several reasons, in fact. First, it uses an IPS panel, which provides wonderful color, and fantastic viewing angles. Every four-hundred dollar screen of this size at Best Buy will be a TN panel, which while having the fastest refresh rate, provides terrible color accuracy and viewing angles that fall off drastically when viewed from any angle other than DEAD center. IPS panels are considerably more expensive for this reason. Second, this is an LED backlit display, not a traditional CCFL backlit display. This means the screen reaches full brightness almost instantaneously after turning it on, whereas CCFL LCD screens take some minutes to achieve the same goal. And, of course, LED lit screens are wonderfully bright compared to CCFL. There is currently, as of typing, no screen out there this size which is LED lit and IPS for this price.
Next, let's add the fact that it will power your new MacBook/MacBook Pro/MacBook Air because it provided a power plug for your laptop! So now you can leave your laptop charger in your bag! Now, let's add that this screen has two fairly decent speakers and a rear-facing subwoofer built in. Sure the quality of the speakers isn't going to be so much that you replace a high-end desktop speaker system with it, but for me, for quiet music and YouTube etc, it's perfect. And it also has three USB ports in the back for plugging in your other devices. Oh, and it has a webcam/microphone built in!
The ONLY reason I don't give the display 5 stars is because Apple has a bit of work to do in their "dust-free environments." I've used four of these displays, and each one has had between one and five dust flecks or debris of some sort under the glass. Many people won't notice, but they're there, and others have reported such things on the Apple Discussion Boards.
In any case, this should not put you off buying what is perhaps not even arguably the most stunning display on the market (provided you have a new Apple notebook of course!). I, for one, could not be happier. It takes my breath away every time I turn it on.
To sum up, for the cost of this display, you get a stunning LED lit, IPS panel, which serves as a docking station of sorts to your Apple notebook by providing USB ports, microphone, webcam, speakers AND power to it. Great stuff. I think it was worth the money.
4.5/5 |
Breathtaking at every angle.
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| Review Date: December 26, 2008 |
| Reviewer: J. Brezo, Florida USA |
The new Apple Cinema Display is absolutely a site for sore eyes. There is nothing else in the market today that will even come close to the magnificence of this display, cheaper but not better. If you have a new Macbook consider it naked without this display.
Everything from design, to functionality, to connectivity far exceeds what anyone expects from a premium computer display. Using this product makes you question how you ever used anything else. Reading the specs and viewing pictures does no justice to this display. This is a feat that must be experienced at first hand.
Design and functionality go hand and hand. With a built-in webcam, self-powered usb ports, 2.1 speaker system, microphone, and macbook charge cable, nothing else works better and easier than this display. Why buy a cheaper screen that has none of these features. You will still have to power both your Macbook and display with separate power cables. Then you will need to connect external speakers, more wires and another powered source. Then of course an external usb hub, if it needs to power an external HHD you will also need to power that as well, add another cable. Want a camera and recording device? You can either keep your macbook open at all times or buy external ones, more cables to add. Getting cluttered yet?
Once all these things are connected you've got a huge octopus with an endless mass of tentacles. Now you want to take your Macbook portable, like you would any laptop, you would think this would be easy. While disconnecting all these external devices just think when you come home you will have to attach them all back. Sounds like fun right. Do it at lease three times a week and the fun will cease to exist.
One cable powers your display, connects from your power socket to your display. That will be the only cable hanging from your outlet. One more cable comes from your the back of the display and connects your macbook. Thats it, all done. The Apple Cinema Display will detect your macbook and work seamlessly. To take your laptop on-the-go just disconnect one cable and your done. One cable does everything.
Another note about the new display is that it is incased completely in aluminum and glass. No external buttons can be found anywhere. Where is the power button? There is no power button. The display turns on the instant your macbook is connected and turns off the instant it is disconnected. Just like the macbook, if something does not have to be there, it isn't. Simplicity is the key. |
Best Companion for Your MacBook/MacBook Pro
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| Review Date: March 6, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Nathan Moore, Nashville, TN United States |
Despite the premium price, this is hands-down the best external display to use with a MacBook or MacBook Pro, especially if you plan on using the dual-desktop arrangement (utilizing the laptop AND display).
The built-in MagSafe adapter is the best feature. It completely negates having to carry the regular power adapter from home to work and back every single day, which is something that I always found to be a pain. The MagSafe adapter is extremely convenient.
Additionally, when the USB cable is plugged into the laptop, it automatically activates the built-in speakers and recognizes the iSight as the primary camera in case you need to use iChat to video conference.
As many others have found, this is not a display that is widely compatible with other laptops or even older Apple laptops. The display is powered by a mini Display Port, which is only used on the newer MacBooks and MacBook Pros. While I am sure that certain adapters can provide functionality with other laptops, this display is really meant to be used as a companion to the newer Apple notebooks.
Overall, the display looks great. I find the glossy screen to make the colors more vivid. However, I have talked to others that are irritated by constant glare of this display (and the new glossy notebook screens as well). While this could be a potential problem, the screen is bright enough that the glare is not very noticeable unless you are in direct sunlight.
I would highly recommend this display to compliment a MacBook or MacBook Pro. It is the best on the market and Apple always seems to create products with stunning industrial design while maintaining the overall quality. |
Absolutely stunning display...
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| Review Date: August 10, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Michael J. Costa Jr., Chapel Hill, NC |
| I recently sold my 20" iMac and purchased this Apple LED Cinema display to use with my 13" MacBook. Let me just say right of the bat, this is the most beautiful, well-constructed display I've ever used. Immediately after plugging the mini displayport into my MacBook, the display light to full brightness and auto adjusted the settings. The 3 USB ports on the rear of the monitor work perfectly and it's great to have the magsafe power charger handy. The monitor's only weakness, in my opinion, is the audio speaker quality. Don't get me wrong, for speakers built into a monitor it sounds great. However, compared with my Logitech Z2300's it's not even close...but I digress. 1080P video runs smooth with exceptional clarity. Also, the depth of color is fantastic - it actually makes my slightly older unibody MacBook look bad (the new MacBook Pros & Air have the updated LED displays that should be on par with this monitor). I can honestly and without any doubt say, if you're at all considering this monitor, you should definitely purchase it - you will NOT be disappointed! Apple LED Cinema Display 24-Inch MB382LL/A |
The picture of this monitor does not do it proper justice
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| Review Date: March 20, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Magnus, Georgia, USA |
I do a lot of graphic/photoshop work, and this display is a joy to work with. This was my first 24" monitor (I upgraded from an old generic 17" LCD) and the size blew me away.
A glossy finish with amazing viewing angles, vivid colors, and pretty much everything you could want. Of course the casing is slick and the black bezel is also awesome. Goes well with my bluetooth apple keyboard/mouse. If they managed to shove the imac into this monitor (So I wouldn't have my macbook off to the side) it would be the perfect setup.
I do feel it was overpriced, however the quality and design of this monitor are unparalleled. |
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