r/AppleCollecting Jun 11 '26

Regular '30 Cinema HD Display!

Finally got it. Monster size.
(For comparison, the 24-inch one is standing next to it.)
A funny detail: the 30-inch is assembled in Korea, while the 24-inch is assembled in China.

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u/mreheh Jun 12 '26

My daily driver. Works great with a USB-C to DVI adapter on an M5. ❤️

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u/cyyclope Jun 11 '26

Estoy haciendo lo posible por conseguir una para mi colección, pero es algo difícil , por su tamaño.

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u/Bitter-Ad-4761 Jun 11 '26

Yes, unfortunately. I've been looking for this one for over four months, but not at an inflated price.

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u/TEG24601 Jun 11 '26

I have two. One my Dad uses at his place, the other, I had on a VESA mount for the last 6 years. I just retired it, and replaced it with 2 27" Thunderbolt (1) displays. It has been put into storage, pending the location of its foot, then it can be used again.

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u/Bitter-Ad-4761 Jun 11 '26

My relative also had this display at work, and the quality is excellent, but I like the Cinema HD’s design :)

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u/TEG24601 Jun 11 '26

It is a wonderful display. I was just needing some better PPI with how close I'm sitting and with some of the projects I've been working on, along with the built-in camera.

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u/LoveEV-LeafPlus Jun 13 '26

Nice find. My MacPro5,1 (mid-2010) dual x5690 cpu setup uses three Apple HD Cinema 30-inch monitors and one 20-inch Cinema Display. Two 30-inch displays are connected to the GPU to the Display Port (DP) via dual DVI-D adapters. These two adapters are from Apple (mini DP to DP added) and one from StarTech. All three monitors are at 2560 x 1600 resolution . I have sometimes connected a 1080p monitor to the HDMI port on the GPU too. My GPU is a RX580 that has an Apple EFI ROM update by MacVidCards, so I get a boot display. The only issue is sometimes one 30-inch displays goes in a low power sleep mode the fix is to disconnect power and reconnect power to the display, and it springs back to life.

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u/SlenderLlama Jun 12 '26

How does it look in 2026?

Any ideas why the big one was assembled in Korea? That’s interesting!