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- Macintosh 16-Inch Color Display: Description (1/94)
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- Article Created: 15 January 1992
- Article Reviewed/Updated: 1 January 1994
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- TOPIC -----------------------------------------------------------
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- This document describes the Macintosh 16-inch Color Display.
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- DISCUSSION ------------------------------------------------------
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- The Macintosh 16-Inch Color Display delivers a sharply focused picture
- identical in quality to the Apple 13-inch Color Display.
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- Feature Set
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- - 16-inch landscape Trinitron display
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- - .26mm horizontal stripe pitch
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- - 832 horizontal pixels by 624 vertical lines (over 500,000 pixels)
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- - 70% more area than 13-inch displays
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- - 70 dots per inch
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- - Horizontal scan rate 50 kHz
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- - Vertical refresh rate 75 Hz
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- - Automatic degaussing on startup
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- - Excellent ergonomic design
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- - Two ADB ports for keyboard and mouse
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- - Sound In/Out ports for microphone and headphone (or speaker)
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- - Anti-glare screen
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- - Vertically and horizontally pivoting base
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- - Meets Swedish recommendation for low frequency magnetic and electric
- field emissions.
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- Uniform Brightness
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- Traditional CRT technology has limitations that cause many large-screen
- color monitors to show uneven brightness across the screen. Variable
- screen brightness degrades the image quality and causes eye fatigue.
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- The Apple 16-inch Color Display uses a CRT design that provides uniform
- brightness across the entire screen. All parts of the screen show the same
- vivid colors. There is no degradation between the center of the screen and
- the edges.
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- Degaussing
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- The Apple 16-Inch Color Display provides automatic degaussing, on power up,
- ensuring that you always have the best image possible on your screen. Color
- display technology uses magnetic fields to guide electron beams inside the
- CRT to the screen. If a foreign magnetic field comes close to the CRT, it
- may disturb the internal magnetic field and cause the beams to be slightly
- misdirected, which distorts the screen image.
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- The display has circuitry, activated during startup, that compensates for
- the distortions by adjusting the internal magnetic field to counteract the
- external magnetic field. If the external magnetic field changes enough
- during operation to distort the screen image, the image remains distorted
- until the display's power is turned off and on again.
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- Adjustable White Point Color Temperature
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- The white point color temperature is a measure, in degrees Kelvin, of a
- display's white. Traditional displays use a 9300 degree K white, which has
- a bluish tint and a high contrast. A 6500 degree K white is similar to
- page white and is more useful for color matching.
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- The Apple 16-inch Color Display features an adjustable white point color
- temperature. You can adjust the white point color temperature by selecting
- the monitor's control panel and clicking on the option button while holding
- down the option key. The options dialog offers a choice of gamma tables,
- and among them are the "Mac Std Gamma" and "Page- White Gamma." The "Mac
- Std Gamma" is the 9300 degree K option that is the traditional bluish
- display white. The "Page-White Gamma" is the 6500 degree K white that
- closely resembles the white of a printed page.
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- Ergonomics
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- The Apple 16-inch Color Display has several ergonomic features that provide
- optimum flexibility for viewing comfort and ease of use.
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- - High-contrast glass with antiglare, antistatic coating
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- - The built-in tilt and swivel base makes it easy to change your viewing
- angle.
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- - A 75 hertz screen refresh rate eliminates any flickering on your screen.
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- - The easily accessible ADB and sound I/O ports on the side and front of
- the base offer flexibility for arranging your system's components.
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- - Power, brightness, and contrast controls on the front of the monitor make
- it easy to cycle power and make adjustments.
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- Article Change History:
- 7 January 1994 - Revised title and topic to add official product name.
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