Amaya Toman In the history of the Apple company, we can also find, among other things, a rather rich range of monitors. It also includes the Apple Studio Display, which was first introduced in the late 1990s. In today's article, we will briefly summarize the arrival, development and history of this monitor.
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In the spring of 1998, at the Seybold Seminars Expo, Apple presented its first-ever display with LCD technology along with its Power Macintosh G3 / 300 DT. This novelty at the time was called Apple Studio Display, and the diagonal of the first model was 15 inches. The Apple Studio Display monitor was equipped with a DA-15 connector for connecting to a computer, in addition to it, it also had a pair of ADB ports, an S-Video and a Composite video port. There was also a headphone jack and RCA audio connectors. Although the Apple Studio Display from 1998 was white in color, its overall design and combination of materials were similar to the iMac G3, which Apple introduced a little later. It was primarily designed to connect to the Power Macintosh G3, requiring System 7.5 or later to run. The brightness of the Apple Studio Display monitor was 180 cd / m², the novelty was sold for less than two thousand dollars.
In January of the following year, Apple presented a redesigned version of this monitor at the MacWorld conference. At that time, the mentioned iMac G3 was already on the market in a design made of colored translucent plastic, and the appearance of the new monitor was also adapted to this design. The January 1999 Apple Studio Display was available in Ice White and Blueberry, with a brightness of 200 cd/m², and Apple also dropped the price to $1099. A few months later, Apple introduced a model with DVI and USB ports, which was available in white and graphite. Also in 1999, the 17″ CRT Apple Studio Display came out of the Apple workshop, as well as the 21″ model. In 2000, he was together with the iconic Power Mac G4 Cube introduced the 15″ Studio Display, followed a year later by a 17″ model with a resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels. In June 2004, Apple put the entire product line of its Studio Display monitors on hold, and the widescreen Apple Cinema Display came into being.
