Is the 24 inch Apple Cinema Display the best choice for Final Cut Studio 2

I'm about to order a Mac Pro and Final Cut Studio 2 and have a question about monitor choices.
Is the 24 inch Apple Cinema Display the best choice are there non-Apple monitors that will do as good or better job with HD editing and output?

COMPUTER MONITORS bear very little on HD editing and output...especially output. They are just the monitors you use to look at your clips and your timeline. THey work for SD and HD. You really only use them to, well, as I said, see what you are doing. It would be nice to have GOOD ONES so the image looks decent. I use the Dell 24" monitors. The current one is the 2408. Nearly half the price of the Apple 23" displays...and really, the only Apple 23" that exists connects via their new connector, so you need a new MacPro or MacBook pro...or some adapter, to get it to work. And they are not worth the extra money, in my experience.
Samsung monitors are also good.
Shane

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I power my machine on in the morning and my display will not launch. My monitor is not flashing any error code sequences at me. At times it takes anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes for my display to light up and show the desktop. I took the display in to the Apple store to have a genius look at it. After watching the genius plug the monitor in to 4 other computers (using the same power connector's I use at home) and work without any problems, we know it is not the monitor that is the problem.
I need to take the machine back in to have it tech'd, but I was trying to do some debugging on my own to see if I can determine the issue at hand. I have tried resetting the SMU on my Power Mac G5 (late 2005 model). The reset seemed like it worked the very first time I tried it, but since then I have been back in the same boat. I also reset the PRAM/NVRAM which did not yield any intriguing results.
I have noticed my monitor seems to show its display quicker if I do not attach the USB key to the G5 until the display is working.
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If you have the acrylic (clear) model M8536 or M8537 and you are using it with the ADC to DVI adapter, then you may want to question the adapter itself. If you are connecting it directly to the graphic card, then I would check the card. If your display is the aluminum (newer model) then I would think the graphic card is the problem, since the geniuses did not find any problems. I really don't think the display is at fault.

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Well, well, well, you make me think more about my last upgrade of an ATI Radeon 2600 to the latest ATI Radeon HD 4870!
I was looking on the Final Cut Pro thread to find one answer and look what I found, your questions!
Since yesterday night I was seeking the Apple Support threads just for fun and I now have doubts.
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*+Source Apple Store :+*
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