I got a nice shiny 3ghz quad beast of a machine mac pro sittin next to a grimey 17" crt (although top picture quality) and me thinks it might be a waste... I'm after a nice 20+ inch flat screen display although anything higher would of course be nice... any recommendations? The 30" apple one is sweet as, but at over a grand, a little extravagant...

TIA

Anyone know which company makes the actual lcd panels, the good ones, so i know what kind of things to look for...ie if they have an own brand etc...

That Eizo panel's specs look pretty darn good, shame its got the aesthetics of a 60's block of flats...

I have an Apple 20" and its the sh!t™

We have 24" dell's at work and they are godawful for paint! The centers of the screens have completely different contrast & colour than the edges!!

Hey Jamm, I've been on the hunt for a new screen as well... I keep coming back to the 20in Apple.

We used 23in Apples at my old work (all print for Paramount and Fox Home Ent.) and they were pretty darn good. I would have to get color proofs of a few of my jobs and they always came back looking rather accurate.

I wanted to get a "Huey" to see how much more I could tweek the display, but my boss would never go for it. Instead she wanted to know why I sucked and couldn't color calibrate the monitor 100% accurate by just eyeballing it.

go with a samsung. i've got the apple 23" and it is total sweetness, but at a price. if I knew better at the time i would've gone samsung. they are a great price for the quality, and possibly better, definitely as good as, the apples. samsung has huge amounts of money in R&D so they put out the best products out there. go with them for a t.v., too, if you're in the market. also, if you do a lot of video, i think the samsungs have quicker refresh rates and higher contrast ratios in general, both are berry berry important when working in anything other than static or print work.

I found this one... has the same specs (more or less) as the apple 20" and even has a higher contrast rating...

206BW

Too bad it's not out yet? When is it going to come out, I can't find out?

Edit: i'm assuming sometime this month? It's looking like I'm going to grab the 206BW over the Apple... Esp with a price tag under 300.00, that's something I can afford.

Well if you want to get ripped of Jigsaw would be the place to get your product. Try somewhere like ebuyer, and do the usual search froogle etc for your product.

UK is more expensive than the states, thats due to currency valuations and because americans are greedy (so they rip us off e.g. mac )

Just got a quote on the new Eizo 24" (S2411W-Black) monitor from Jigsaw - £775 inc vat + del. doesn't arrive in uk for another couple of weeks though...

And as Jigsaw is expensive, it must be around for cheaper than that...somewhere...

HP L2045w for £100! (~ish, after £50 cash back)