Apple Cinema HD Display 30-inch LCD monitor

DESC: The new Apple Cinema Display lineup is the perfect companion for your Power Mac G5 or PowerBook. Its anodised aluminium case is sleek and elegant, and lets you use two displays much closer to each other than ever before. The new lineup is bigger, brighter and much more compatible. Choose an optional VESA mount to install your display anywhere. Each display includes a FireWire 400 hub and a USB 2.0 hub, each with two ports. So you can connect a printer or scanner, or a camcorder or digital camera. The FireWire port lets you easily use an iSight camera for video chat, presented beautifully on your Apple display, or connect your iPod dock. You can also make best use of all the latest USB 2.0 devices, whether you're using your display with a Mac or PC.

The 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display (model M9179LL/A) is a stylish and well-designed monitor, so don't let its size fool you. It's not as heavy as you might expect (just 27.5 pounds), and it's not overly difficult to move. The L-shape base is stable and sturdy. The smooth-motion hinge allows you to adjust the display 5 degrees forward or up to 25 degrees backward with very little effort.

Despite its size, the display has a small footprint, although you can also mount it on a wall. This option requires the Cinema Display VESA Mount Adapter ($29) as well as a VESA mount kit.

The viewable area is 29-7/10 inches, with an optimal resolution of 2,560X1,600 and support for up to 16.7 million colors. The viewing angle of 170 degrees horizontal and vertical means you can view the display off-axis without distorting the image. The pixel response time of 16 milliseconds is impressive, particularly for a display of this size, with little ghosting or blurring of fast-moving images. The Cinema HD Display is a good choice for playing 3-D games or viewing DVD.

Power and brightness controls are tucked out of sight, so they don't spoil the appearance of the brushed aluminum bezel. A single cable houses all input types (FireWire 400, USB 2.0, DVI, and power), which helps reduce desktop clutter.

This Cinema HD Display includes two FireWire 400 ports, a Kensington security port, and a two-port, self-powered USB 2.0 hub, so you can connect a variety of peripherals, including a digital camera, scanner, camcorder, iPod dock, or iSight webcam. It also includes a DVI connector for hooking up to a Mac or a PC. Unlike some modern displays, the Cinema HD Display only supports one input, so you can't share it between two computers.

The large, bright screen of the Apple Cinema HD Display can be a little overwhelming at first, not unlike sitting in the front row at a movie theater. However, it won't take long to adjust to the display's size or revel in its sharp images, vivid colors, rich blacks, and crisp text.

Pro: Extremely high-resolution display. Bright, sharp images. Consistent color from edge to edge and corner to corner. Rich blacks and crisp text, even at small type sizes.

Con: Very expensive. Requires a dual-link DVI-capable graphics card. Only supports one input.

Warranty

1 year

30-INCH CINEMA DISPLAYS

Price: $1,825

Thewidescreen Apple Cinema Display line offers a natural format for arranging documents the way your brain processes them — longer wide than high. So you can easily fit palettes, timelines, extra windows and more right in your viewing area. Still not enough? The exceptionally narrow bezel lets you use multiple displays together seamlessly.

The Cinema Display at a Glance

30-inch Cinema HD

30-inch (29.7-inch viewable)

2560 x 1600 optimal resolution

16.7 million colors

DVI Display Connector

2 port USB 2.0 Hub

2 FireWire 400 ports

VESA mount compatible

HARD DRIVE

WD Caviar Black 1TB Hard Drive

(Serial ATA-300, 7,200 RPM, 32MB - MPN: WD1001FALS)



Price range: $99.99 - $225.22 from 17 Sellers

Description: WD Caviar Black drives combine a high performance electronics architecture with a rock solid mechanical architecture to deliver the perfect storage solution for your fully-loaded PC or maxed out gaming machine.

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Seagate FreeAgent External 1.5TB Hard Drive

(USB 2.0, 7,200 RPM - MPN: ST315005FDA2E1RK)

Price range: $139.99 - $226.30 from 15 Sellers

Description: Store all your photos, music, videos, and documents with the powerful yet simple Seagate FreeAgent Desk storage solution. The FreeAgent Desk storage solution includes easy-to-use software that helps keep your information safe and private with automatic backup and encryption of your important files and folders. Environmentally smart utilities help save energy by putting your FreeAgent drive in sleep mode once it has been idle for 15 minutes. Its design is sleek and modern, so you can take advantage of its flexibility to lie on its side or stand upright to maximize your workspace. Count on the FreeAgent Desk storage solution to store and safeguard everything on your PC - and to look really good doing it.

LaCie Golden Disk

Lacie Golden Disk 500GB Portable Hard Drive

The campest hard drive in the universe proves to be a decent performer too...

Review LaCie has been making a selling point out of designer external hard-drives for years, but as many of its rivals have adopted a similar strategy - those not slugging it out on price, that is - the French company been forced to up the ante with ever more outlandish products.

For every stylish Porsche-designed Firewire unit or heavy metal Little Big Disk - reviewed here - there's another that's totally off the wall. Take 2005's Lego-style desktop and mobile drives - a hit with some users' inner kid, but a mental block for many others. And what about last year's Skwarim micro HDDs, kitted out in bright blue and bright pink rubber-like plastic? Fetishists, please form an orderly queue...

LaCie's Golden Disk: Midas touch

LaCie's latest, the appropriately named Golden Disk, is no less bizarre, perhaps. It's certainly the shiniest, most lustrous external hard drive we've ever seen. And we're not talking the mute matt tone of most spray-paint gilding but a true see-your-face-in-it yellow-metal mirror.

Size-wise, the Golded Disk roughly matches LaCie's Porsche desktop drive, and it's clearly the older unit's offspring. Both are largely unadorned but for a couple of logos on one side, the left, with an air vent on the other and a tiny orange activity LED in the bottom left-hand corner of the front panel. Round the back, there's the same DIN-style four-pin power connector from the same small AC adaptor, and a round push-button to turn the drive on. The Golden Disk also sports a printer-style USB port, for which there's a cable in the box. There's also a black polishing cloth to remove the fingerprints that the drive's shiny surface inevitably attracts.

But where the Porsche unit is clad in an austere, gunmetal-grey steel casing that says it means business, the Golden Disk is, as we say, very shiny, very golden and as camp as Butlins. It's not real gold - it's not heavy enough for that - but you could be forgiven for thinking you've gone and got an ingot.

It's the sort of item you'd expect to see in the Tate Modern, exhibited as a clever-dick comment on consumerism or a pithy po-mo pastiche of tasteless technology design, depending on your point of view.

C3PO's ideal hard drive?

Or you might think it just plain tasteless, more crass than class. What stops the design being little more than a Chav's must-have is the gently rippled upper face, which distorts what's reflected off it like something out of a Hall of Mirrors fairground attraction. The look comes from French design house Ora-Ïto, which also includes Toyota, LG, Swatch, Renault and Virgin among its other customers.

SONY LAPTOPS & PRICES

Price: $1,150

Sony SR-190 - Slim & Light Wieght.

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2, 2gb Ram, 120gb Hard Disk, 13.3 " Crystal Brite Display, DVD Burner, Lan, Modem, Wi-Fi, Bluetoth, Camera, Finger Print Reader, Memory card reader, XP Professional / Vista Business Dual License). 1 year international manufacturer's warranty.

Price: $1,088

Sony CR-590 - BLACK

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0, 2gb Ram, 160gb Hard Disk, 14.1 " Crystal Brite Display, DVD Burner, Lan, Modem, Wi-Fi, Bluetoth, Camera, Finger Print Reader, Memory card reader, Vista Home Premium. 1 year international manufacturer's warranty.

Price: $1,200

Sony NR 475 - Silver

Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8, 1gb Ram, 200gb Hard Disk, 15.4" Crystal Brite Display, DVD Burner, Lan, Modem, Wi-Fi, Memory card reader, Vista Home Premium. 1 year international manufacturer's warranty.

Price05 : $1,500

Sony AR 6

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.56Ghz, 3Gb ram, 160 Gb Hard Disk, 17 " Crystal Brite Display, DVD Burner, Lan, Modem, Wi-Fi, Memory Card Reader, Camera, Windows Vista Premium. 1 Year International, Manufacturer's Warranty.

WIRELESS APPLE MIGHTY MOUSE

Now you can get the world-famous Mighty Mouse without the tail. With its Bluetooth technology, the wireless Mighty Mouse gives you complete freedom of movement with no cable clutter. It features the popular Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, without lifting a finger. And its laser tracking technology allows it to work on more surfaces with greater precision.

Price: $73













Bluetooth technology, ultimate portability

With its secure, reliable Bluetooth technology, wireless Mighty Mouse goes wherever you do. Pair it with any Bluetooth-enabled Mac to work untethered and uncluttered at your desk or on the go, and it operates with either one or two AA batteries — no bulky dock required.

Laser tracking engine

The wireless Mighty Mouse features a laser tracking engine that's up to 20 times more sensitive to surface details than traditional optical technology. That means it can track with precision on more surfaces than ever — even smooth or polished surfaces — with no mouse pad required.

Innovative Scroll Ball and button

Perfectly positioned to roll smoothly under just one finger, Mighty Mouse's Scroll Ball offers full 360-degree scrolling capability — up/down, left/right and diagonally. You can scroll long web pages, pan full-size images, maneuver around large spreadsheets, control a video timeline and more. And you can even click the Scroll Ball to access your favorite Mac OS X features such as Dashboard, Spotlight or Exposé.

Touch-sensitive top shell

It looks and feels like a sleek one-button mouse, but Mighty Mouse's smooth top shell hides a powerful secret: touch-sensitive technology under the shell detects which part of the mouse you're clicking, so you can both left-click and right-click. And if you prefer the simplicity of a classic one-button mouse, Mighty Mouse is up to the task. Just use the Mac OS X system preference pane to configure it how you want.

Customizable

Through the power of Mac OS X Tiger, Mighty Mouse gives you fingertip access to the special features you love. Simply use the system preference panel to configure Mighty Mouse in the way that makes you most powerful. Control the Scroll Ball's tracking, zoom and click functions, as well as the right, left and side click functions. And you even can set up different mouse profiles for every user account on your Mac.

GLOWING APPLE KEYBOARD

Glowing Apple Keyboard installed a bright blue LED inside the Apple Pro Keyboard. This is the original mod, I did same again and posted of the process.



How to pimp an Apple Pro Keyboard (USB version) by installing a LED in its nether regions.



Put the top back on, turn the keyboard over while holding the halves together and re-attach the screws.Here you can see the LED glowing in the hole. This photo has notes. Move your mouse over the photo to see them.

Caution: Some serious screwing and probing around in holes involved, also with power tools. Proceed at your OWN RISK only!

Thar she glows (the Apple Keyboard) My new Apple Pro Keyboard is also fitted with a blue LED now.