Six Years On, Still Looking Good

Macworld’s Rob Griffith, on his original 23-inch Apple Cinema Display (the “Aqua” one), which just turned 6 years old:

The plastic case itself is fine, not showing any scratches at all. When I bought the monitor, it had one dead pixel (thankfully, in an out-of-the-way location and one that only shows on black backgrounds), and as of today, that’s still the only dead pixel.

The monitor’s brightness seems to be right where it was when new, too—I leave the brightness slider in the middle of the range, and I find that makes the display more than bright enough for my eyes.

So given the monitor is still going strong after nearly 20,000 hours of use (and three moves to new homes), I think it’s been well worth the cost. Looked at one way, the monitor has cost me about 11 cents per hour of use over six years, which seems a very reasonable price to pay.

I love those displays.