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Melissa Jones reports that the 24-inch iMac puts her 25-inch living-room television to shame. “The most noticeable thing about the 24-inch iMac is that screen. It’s a widescreen monitor with bright, sharp colors. The resolution is 1920 x 1200 pixels. By comparison, the standard resolution on a television is 640 x 480 pixels. The resolution is almost too much for some video formats…” More …

Gizmodo reports on the price drop in Apple Cinema Displays, and an increase in some models’ brightness.

The 20-incher drops $100 to $699, and now glows at 300 candle-power per meter squared (cd/m2) instead of 250cd/m2. The 23-incher, which we think is the perfect size for monitor hungry but not-so-rich geeks drops a whopping $300 to $999, and gets a significant boost to its backlight to 400 cd/m2 (from 270 cd/m2.) And the big poppa 30-inch display drops $500 to $1999, although it doesn’t get any brighter. More …