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I've had a frustrating experience and I find the "updated" specs for the Apple Cinema Displays is in complete shambles. Before you buy an ACD please consider reading this first.
It's been three+ weeks since the price drop and the updated specs were silently announced. You would think that a memo of sorts would have been sent around to all the employees announcing these changes. Apparently not considering the events leading up to my purchase, I found there were a lot of Apple store employees clueless to the changes.
What's even more puzzling is that there is no way to differentiate the old displays from the new ones. The box hasn't changed and the part number stayed the same. People are buying the ACD under the presumption they're getting the new spec ones when instead they're handed the old spec displays. Case in point:
A friend and I decided to each purchase the 23" ACD. We called the Apple store asking for the new spec display and were assured that they were in the next delivery. The displays came in; we put two on reserve and drove to pick them up. I was still uneasy and skeptical about the purchase since as stated above there is no way to differentiate the old from the new. It's a shame because this was my first Apple purchase and I thought I would have been more excited, instead I was feeling angst. I said the heck with it, we were assured on the phone it was the new specs, and my friend said if its not I could always exchange it.
Before opening it I decided to do some research, I needed confirmation. Thanks to this forum I was able to use my serial number to look up the production date of my display. What a disappointment it was to find out my ACD was produced earlier in the year. I was frustrated but I didn't let it get to me since I already knew I was going to return it and my friend was in the same boat.
The following day I returned to the Apple store and tried to find the most knowledgeable person working there. It didn't take long to figure out the person I was dealing with was oblivious to the upgraded specs. Thankfully she was kind enough to hand me off to another clueless employee. Again I had to explain my situation, again I had to show that there was a change in the specs by visiting the Apple website. At least the second employee was willing to check the stock and pull out the their latest display based on the serial number. If you're still reading this and rolling your head at this point great because so was I. So employee 2 walks to the backroom and emerges ten minutes later empty handed and with him brings out employee number 3. This is where it starts to get interesting. This guy swaggers up and the first thing out of his mouth is "I know all about the new specs" and I'm thinking to myself great it's about time. My eyes almost pop out when he tells me that the upgraded specs are not "real" changes, just different on paper so they can compete with the Dell displays. What did he just say? He continues by adding there are no physical or noticeable differences in the displays so I'm better off keeping the one I already have. It was obvious he could read the disbelief and disgust that was written all over my face but this guy just couldn't keep quite. The next thing to utter from this guys mouth was if I wanted the new spec displays I would have to wait two months. Now doesn't that conflict with what he just mentioned. He continues to ramble but at this point my mind was made up. I just wanted my refund and I wanted to walk straight out of there.
For my first Apple experience it was disappointing.

My experience as a mac user for 16 years, is that the store assistants are useless, and yesterday I advised two of them to start visiting this discussion forum to get educated.
I went to 2 stores in Miami, and no one had a clue about new specs or the problems with the 23 inch Display. They did not know about DVI to ADC adapters ... I could go on and on. They are just shop assistants in nice black T shirts.
For new single users, it's not as frustrating. I buy for my design studio and it's a bigger investment when you multiply by 7 or 8 workstations.

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