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Originally Posted by faded1004;14961842
the led back light sounds interesting.

My 3 LG monitors have LED lighting, and I don't really like it. Main reason is it's edge lighting, which when the screen is dark/black and the lights are off you can easily see lights coming from the edges of the monitor. Very distracting, and doesn't bode well for Diablo 3, which I plan to play lots of.

 

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Originally Posted by Ovlazek;14962419
What connections does the Apple display use?? I thought it was just thunderbolt...

It has USB, and Mini DP as well. Which with various adapters mini DP becomes DVI, HDMI, DP, VGA.

 

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Originally Posted by Ovlazek;14962506
I'm looking at it now. I see three usb ports, firewire, thunderbolt, and ethernet only?

Mini Display port.

 

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Originally Posted by Ovlazek;14962535
Where is this? Sorry I don't mean to badger. I just don't want you to spend $3k on monitors that won't work for you. Plus I am curious as I was looking at the Dell as well.

Thunderbolt and Mini DP are the same connectors. Thunderbolt is based off Displayport.

 

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Originally Posted by Ovlazek;14962585
If you check that wiki, it states that mac's without a thunderbolt port can't use the thunderbolt display though. Lots of mac's have had mini-dp ports. My old iMac from 2006 had one. There is conflicting info here. I can't find anything that confirms that thunderbolt and mini-dp use the same ports, just that it is based off of dp.

Apples website will tell you what I posted above.

 

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Originally Posted by Altstadt;14962689
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Maintenance Badge? Where are you, Kadena, Misawa? I did a short TDY from Kunsan to Kadena in 91.

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Kadena

@Ovlazek I talked to the Apple Store rep. You can plug in a mini DP, but for display only.

 

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Originally Posted by Lyno;14968528
Unrelated, I've never seen the mac displays run in eyefinity. Might be because they're so expensive, but the bezels are also really thick so that would spoil the image imo.

A nice $200+ monitor stand can hold 3 monitors and angle them so most of the bezel disappears. I have seen a couple eyefinity Apple Cinema displays around here.

I am going to get 3 of the U2711. Thx for everyones input.