Using a Mac from twenty years ago is an experience to say the least, but the logic is that we do be aware that it is a machine that has become obsolete. Unless you apply solutions like Retrozilla, a Mac from the 1990s isn’t even useful for browsing the Internet anymore.
But there are Apple products that, many years behind them, still cause a lot of problems, and can even stand side by side with modern generations in their class. And no, I’m not talking about the iPod: I’m talking about cinema display.
Flat pants in the era of tube monitors
Reddit user Velocity211 proves it with this photo of him implementwhere on the one hand you have a modern 27 inch monitor and on the other hand you have a 30-inch cinema screen that still looks impressive today. It’s hard to believe, but Apple introduced these monitors twenty years ago and they’re still large by today’s standards (excuse me ultrawide).
The same cannot be said for its resolution: 2560 x 1600 pixels seemed like a huge canvas to us in 2022 but right now we have that canvas even on iPad Pro screens. And for them to work on current computers, you have to look for adapters that work with their dual DVI connectors: in 2022, you had to use two graphics cards to be able to have them 30 inches.
But still, let’s see which manufacturer can boast that there are still people using their 30-inch screens from two decades ago. Quite a milestone. I leave you with the moment of presentation of this screen, which is one of my favorite moments of all opening speech from Apple’s history:
Picture | Wikimedia Commons
