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    Default 30" Apple's LCD cinema display with 2560 X 1600 resolution

    Group;

    I'm looking to get two of these huge monitors for my new CAD system and was wondering if anyone is using them for CAD.

    I experienced some fuzzy text from viewing one of my PDF CAD files from my web site and am not sure if this was caused from the conversion from DWF to PDF or if it was the monitor. I want to be able to view an actual DWG or DXF file at the MAC store and was wondering if anyone knows of a FREE plug in or viewer I can use at the MAC store.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cadkiller
    Group;

    I'm looking to get two of these huge monitors for my new CAD system and was wondering if anyone is using them for CAD.

    I experienced some fuzzy text from viewing one of my PDF CAD files from my web site and am not sure if this was caused from the conversion from DWF to PDF or if it was the monitor. I want to be able to view an actual DWG or DXF file at the MAC store and was wondering if anyone knows of a FREE plug in or viewer I can use at the MAC store.

    Thanks;
    Edward Borg
    Precision Drafting LLC
    http://precisiondraftingllc.com
    have never imagined a monitor like that, but, here's info on free viewers...
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    Default Re: 30" Apple's LCD cinema display with 2560 X 1600 resolution

    Just to let you know the 30" is not compatible with a windows system. You need a special graphic card that is only for the MAC.

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    Default Re: 30" Apple's LCD cinema display with 2560 X 1600 resolution

    They have the standard DVI connectors and I checked with PNY and they tested them on several of their video cards. I need the dual link DVI capability cards that run two of them. Apple states on their web site that they are PC compatible.

    I'm getting the Nvidia FX 4400 PCI express card when it comes out. The FX 3400 can run one of them.

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    Default Re: 30" Apple's LCD cinema display with 2560 X 1600 resolution

    wow cadkiller, congrats on the super-fancy monitor! It should rock, all the other Apple ones I've seen certainly do.

    Also: what did you use to look at the PDF? and how did you have the PDF on your website configured? Mac's have PDF built-in, so it should have shown clear...
    Last edited by hand471037; 2004-12-13 at 11:12 PM.

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    Default Re: 30" Apple's LCD cinema display with 2560 X 1600 resolution

    Jeffrey;

    I just uploaded my PDF files to my web site and accessed them by entering the path in the IE MAC browser. After that it downloaded the file and I opened it with their PDF viewer.

    I found a couple of DWG viewers that will work on a MAC system. I just need to go to the Apple store and install the demo version on their system to be able to view it. Adobe Illustrator and Vector works can view these files. This should give me a good test before I spend the big bucks on these monitors.

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    Default Re: 30" Apple's LCD cinema display with 2560 X 1600 resolution

    Quote Originally Posted by cadkiller
    They have the standard DVI connectors and I checked with PNY and they tested them on several of their video cards. I need the dual link DVI capability cards that run two of them. Apple states on their web site that they are PC compatible.

    I'm getting the Nvidia FX 4400 PCI express card when it comes out. The FX 3400 can run one of them.

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    Thats cool. I looked into it a little more, because I would love to get one of these monitors, and found this.
    30Inch on PC (2:32pm EST Fri Oct 08 2004)
    I called and talked to Apple Tech Support and I asked if I could run this monitor on PC with my XFX Dual DVI DDL 6800GT card and I quote...."I will give you two answers, one is the official Apple answer and one is the REAL answer. The official answer is no Apple stated that it will only run on a Mac with this DDL card...the real answer is it will run perfectly fine on your 6800GT Dual DVI DDL card." So there you go from the horses mouth and the king of propaganda..Apple Tech support. - by Jeremiah

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    Default Re: 30" Apple's LCD cinema display with 2560 X 1600 resolution

    The 6800Gt card can only support 1600 x 1200 DVI. Here are the specs.

    Specifications NVIDIA® CineFX 3.0 engine
    Superscaler GPU architecture with 16 rendering pipelines
    350MHz core clock
    256-bit high-speed DDR3 memory interface
    1GHz memory data rate
    32GB/sec. memory bandwidth
    5.6 billion texels/sec. fill rate
    406 million vertices/sec. setup
    525 million vertices/sec. setup
    16 pixels per clock (peak)
    16 textures per pixel(max in a single rendering pass)
    Dual 400MHz RAMDACs
    Maximum display resolution 2048 x 1536 at 85Hz
    Flat panel display support with resolutions up to 1600 x 1200

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    Default Re: 30" Apple's LCD cinema display with 2560 X 1600 resolution

    Group;

    Matrox just came out with a new card that can support the Apple 30" LCD.
    It can only support one of them and costs about $700.00..

    http://www.matrox.com/mga/media_center/press_rel/2005/parhelia_dl256_cad.cfm

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