Apple lowers Cinema Display prices

...prices help however r we missing this option given iChat is a core feature?

Naw. The people who'd buy an apple monitor really don't care about an isight. The monitors generally are for the MacPros and possible macbook pro users. Maybe mini buyers, but I have a hard time believing someone being cheap enough to buy a mini then spending the same amount just for the monitor.

Anyway, they're still overpriced/underfeatured compared to all the other monitors out there. No heigh adjustment. No multiple inputs. No monitor rotation.

"The greatest price decrease affects the 30-inch Cinema HD display, which drops from $1,999 to a more affordable $1,799"

Both the 30" and the 23" have a 10% discount, while the 20-inch has over 14% discount.

I still won't touch one of these under-featured and under-warrantied things with a 10 foot pole.

Increase the warranty to 3 years, then the Apple Cinema displays become a maybe.

Screw AppleCare.

Since I'm still using an increasingly dilapidated SGI monitor (purchased many years ago at a very good price) I saw this news of a price-drop and thought: "Oooooh, $600 for a 20" monitor with nice stylings, that ain't bad!"

Except that I forgot to factor in Apple's trully insulting UK pricing -- with the discount on the Apple UK store it now comes in at the low, low price of GBP 529. For those of you unused to currency exchange, that's USD $1,045!

Apple (and most other computer-makers for that matter) like to claim it's a combination of taxes and cost of sales, personnel, etc. For the sake of argument, let's add 30% to the US list-price (which would be a VAT of 17.5% and a random additional charge of 12.5%), that gives us: $778. Still a far cry from $1,045.

I was recently able to buy a MacBook Pro in the US for the same price as a MacBook in the UK. Even factoring in the cost of the stupid plug adaptors I still saved a huge amount.

Get real Apple!

Student prices are down to $549, $799, and $1599 on the 20", 23", and 30" displays respectively. Got a kid in school, anyone?

I hope this means a revision is coming. Whith no HDMI connector, no Blu-ray compatibility and a much higher price than equivalent Dell screens, I will keep waiting.

Yup, have to agree with Testudo that the Cinema Displays have to be the most short featured and expensive LCD displays out there, look at the Dell 2407WFP for a comparison that uses similar Samsung panels. You can stuff USB and Firewire, I'd like to be able to have more than one thing (or is it two things?) connected to a panel that costs so much.

First of all everything is more expensive in the UK. I live in NYC (the USA's most expensive city) and when I go to London the prices are absolutely shocking. Maybe you should compare prices for laptops within the UK and not the US vs the UK. The dollar is so week now the US has become a "gray" market for electronics. Stop complaining and get on a flight to spend some of those very valuable pounds here.

As for the built in iSight, hello? Pro users like to ichat as much as grandma on here iMac. iChat is great for business purposes as well. This is really strange especially since Apple seems to have dropped the camera from the store.

it could very well be that the price drops are very much to clear as much inventory as possible before iSight equipped ones come along. Matter of fact, "pros" who are the target market for external monitors (i.e. they buy towers for power and upgradability) have more actual need for video conferencing them the typical home user.