Can't help on the Dell monitor ... never owned one or worked with one. I've been working with the iMac 27", Apple Cinema Display 27" LED and Thunderbolt Display 27" as well as MacBook Pro 13" for quite a while now ... all glossy screens. As others have said, take a little care in positioning them and lighting your workspace, and they're no problem at all.
If you want, you can get anti-glare overlays that reduce glare too. Here's one: http://www.radtech.us/Products/ClearCal-Displays.aspx I really like the Thunderbolt 27" display paired with the latest MacBook Air 13" ... that's a perfect combination for me. Yeah yeah ... it's expensive. So is Photography. I've spent 2x times as much on cameras and lenses in the past year, and I use the computer 20x as much as I do the cameras. ;-) G On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Christine Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a cautionary tale... > > This summer we replaced the older mac mini that I have been using.. > the new model is equipped with Thunderbolt. Hooked it up to my Dell > U3011 monitor. Been beating my head against the wall ever since, > trying to get prints that match the screen. Have calibrated & fiddled > until the cows come home, but still get prints that look > oversaturated & red. Yesterday, I finally stumbled upon a setting > that said the Input Color Format the monitor was receiving was YPbPr, > not RGB. Setting to RGB input produces an unholy magenta freakshow of > a picture. > > Down the rabbit hole I went.... Long story short, the new thunderbolt > machines don't send RGB to the Dell.. or is it the Dell can only read > YPbPr from the mac...? Don't know, but the thing can't be calibrated > (apparently) in this situation. > > The problem is documented on various forums, but not much of a > solution on the horizon, eg: > http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/peripherals/f/3529/p/19458525/20148889.aspx > > The only monitor that will work correctly with the mac appears to be > the thunderbolt monitors... which are all glossy. > > So... just how bad would the glossy screen be? Anyone out there use > one? Thoughts? As I try to decide which apparatus becomes a very > expensive paperweight: the dell monitor, or the thunderbolt mac mini, > it would be good to have input on that. > > Thanks. > > :( > -c > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
