Apple Discontinues 23 inch Cinema Display

Apple has recently discontinued its 23 inch Cinema Display, most likely in favor of the new 24 inch Cinema Display LCD. The 23 inch model still appears to be available on the Apple Store, but is marked "DISCONTINUED." We don't have any test results for the new 24 inch display, but I'm not encouraged by the comments made by Apple staffers at its introduction. They say that the way to overcome glare from its glass cover was to "pump a lot of light through it." This is not the design philosophy that helps create a color accurate display. Maybe it will be good, maybe it won't, but unless you have a Mac with the new display adapter, you can't use it anyway.

On most things I drink the Apple Kool-Aid, but in the last decade I haven't been a big fan of their displays for professional use. They make great displays for the prosumer, but for those of us in the visual arts, we have far more choices, and far better documentation on the capabilities when we choose a third party product. The 23 inch Cinema Display is the first Apple display I was excited about in a long time, but alas, now it's gone...