Why strain your peepers with a puny 15-inch laptop, when you can free your images from their computational prison? At least that’s the premise behind Apple’s LED Cinema display.
A 24-inch widescreen monitor, the Apple LED Cinema display boasts a better-than-HD 1920×1200 pixel resolution that dazzles your eyes with glorious images that are only matched by the LED Cinema’s glossy glass and aluminium exterior. Seriously, if ever a monitor throbbed with sex appeal, it’s this one.
Sex appeal alone, however, isn’t enough to warrant spending over six tons on the Apple LED Cinema. In fact it becomes harder to justify when you find out that there’s no HDMI to hook up your Blu-ray player. Seriously, what’s the point in making a better-than-HD monitor when you can’t even hook up HD machines to it via HDMI?
What the LED Cinema has got are three USB ports and booming speakers that’ll blast the cobwebs out of your wallet. It’s unbelievably easy to get going as well – just plug in one chord to your new MacBook and away you go. Unfortunately, it has to be from the new MacBook family, because Apple, in its infinite wisdom has given this monitor a Mini DisplayPort video socket, which means it’ll only work with the new MacBook and MacBook Pro.
Still, you have to see this running to grasp the quality of the Apple LED screen. It’s almost worth the ludicrously expensive price alone. We did say almost.
