I actually wrote this in the mac pro thread, but now that this is here it belongs here:

Good to see a monitor drop but they're still way to expensive as much a I want one to match my mbp. I wanted the 20 inch but at 699 canadian that's wayyy too much even if it offers a firewire and usb hub. It should be more like 549 or 499 canadian (and that's still pushing it imo). I'm thinking of getting the 22" benq since I don't need all the pro colour calibration and I could get 2 benqs or 2 acers for that price. (22" benq 314.99, 22" acer 319.99).

Lower it more apple, I can get a small hdtv for my bedroom for your 20" monitor price.

But then again maybe I can finally get a decent price on one from ebay.

Not even close to enough of a price drop. A widescreen Dell 20" monitor capable of the same resolution is $229. The Apple Cinema Displays are beautiful.... but not more than twice the price worth of beautiful.

The last price drop (last summer?) put Apple at a competative price for display's... this price drop is still well short of the market.

e.g. 20" Dell Widescreen (non-HD to non-HD) = $299 today versus Apple @ $599.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/p...1&sku=320-5123

With Apple's worldwide buying power on LCD (add up all those inches in ipods) and they certainly should have competative costing on quality panels from thier suppliers.

I'm certain I'm going to get flamed about some quality differences, but really, if you are comparing the 20" Apple non-HD display to any other brand, how can you defend Apple's advantage when you can't justify buying the 23" HD?

Boooh!
Monitors: No HDMI, still too expensive!!
Mac Pro: Still the underpowered 7300 as standard, just 1gb internal memory standard!

Lousy update.

I don't think Apple CAN lower the prices of these monitors much more. The price structure of the monitor, apart from the screen itself, is likely too high.

As far as I know, they are the only company producing monitors with aluminum cases and supports. That alone, is raising the price over what it could be.

They would need a newly engineered series of monitors for them to be able to lower the price substantially. That's if they didn't introduce a series with heavy features and specs.

My 2 cents...

I think that this is simply a channel-clearing action by Apple; in preparation for new Cinema displays, which will debut later this year.

Why? No integrated iSight.

Given the existence of the Leopard iChat and iChat Server, Apple would be fools not to include pros in on the party.

melgross, how Samsung 225BW (1680 x 1050 rite?) compared to 20 " Apple Cinema display?

I am contemplating between 24" Samsung & 23" Cinema display for my macbook, do not know whether integrated graphics good enough to drive 23" 1900 x 1200

or need to settle with 20" 1680 x 1050

price changes are welcome, but not update to mark for competition, hopefully newer design will bring the cost down

LED version with iSight built in starting at 22" for the same price soon.
Currently clearing inventory.