cinematic displays~

PC ram and apple Ram are exactly the same... dont know what brand apple works with, but ram is good if it works. brand really doesnt matter, unless you want a warrenty or something along those lines. personally i think the CRT apple monitors are not as good as their lcd, which are amazing. but yeah if you dont want to fork over 6000 bucks for a screen and a the computer get a powerbook. i work with an imac (at school) and personally i dont like it.. something about a giant pimple on my desk doesnt do it for me. it works fine and everything but i hate its look. and the powerbook is portable which is always fun.

Direct quote from a friend of mine:
"I've been fighting with my computer for months now trying to find out what was causing my computer to do strange ****. Corrupted files, programs crashing, entire operating systems crashing and bad stuff in general. I've reinstalled my OSes about 3 times each only to have them seemingly degrade after 3-4 weeks. Well I found the problem!!!

256MB of DDR memory"

Ram that is cheap can cause havoc. I would stick with trusted names.

I have like 3 different types of memory and it never crashes
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even that new tiny powerbook looks nice when your at home just hook it up to your crt

Yes, the 12" is nice. Though it doesn't have FireWire 800, L3 Cache, the lighted keyboard, etc. Still a good deal for $1800. And a whole lot of computer in that tiny package.

Lol.... that was because he bought some cheap Ram that went bad and he couldnt figure out why his pc was freaking out.

well like i said... if it works it works.. and if it doesnt it doesnt.. cheap ram can work just as well as name brand, just need to find it.

I wouldn't use an LCD for graphics work as colors don't match up on screen nearly as well as with a CRT. Apple's super expensive LCDs probably come close, but a halfway decent CRT is better than the most expensive LCD's color matching ability.

If I were you, I'd buy a $700-$800 22" Mitsubishi DP2060u or an NEC FP1375x. Both are high quality large CRTs that smoke LCD image quality.

I run a NEC FP1370 22" through BNC connectors, which supposedly is the best for colors on a CRT. Neither the DP2060u or FP1375x have BNC connectors on the back, but its not exactly necessary for image quality. Only if you want to be a true graphic geek (like me). Plain old VGA d-sub connectors should suffice.

I don't really need firewire.. all my stuff is USB, like my camera or whatever.. although if I bought a mac I'd soo need an ipod!
but surely the 12" has some light source, like my thinkpad has a light on it just fiberoptic under the kb :(

Like mr b was saying, the cathode ray tubes are closer to print colour and graphics. the 17' iMac display i'm using is extremely clear however, but print wise, i think the gamma is wrong. the screen is a bit too bright i think. LCDs are so expensive because when you make them, you have to make two of them and one of them is a dud, you use the other one. I'd either go to eBay and get two CRTs or get a laptop/my iMac! I wouldn't buy the Apple screens on its own.

No, the 12" has no keyboard lighting at all. And everyone needs firewire!