I know a few people who would have purchased an Apple brand 17" widescreen if they had them. The problem that I see is the cost of a decent 19" widescreen can be found for under $200. I doubt Apple will offer a 17" for cheaper than that. They price their displays at one heck of a premium with little bang for your buck.

Apple may re-introduce 17-inch display

And they may make computers that don't need extended repair programs. And they may give a free ipod to all Mac users. Then again, what WILL they do???

Apple is preparing to launch a new 17-inch standalone LCD display...which will replace entry-level and mid-range 15- and 17-inch LCDs moving forward.

Isn't it kind of hard to replace models that don't exist and haven't for years? Did the Mac Mini replace the Performa 400?

Additionally, more efficient panel cutting by LCD makers will reduce the cost of new units, ensuring the new screens will not ship fetch a premium price upon their forthcoming debut.

"ship fetch"? And what's a 'premium' price? Theoretically the same LCD cutting Apple would gain from Dell would too, and allow them to cut prices as well. Although when you're talking that price, its hard to call a $50 difference a 'premium'.

Ah yes, Digitimes which is about as reliable as Colin Powell's report on weapons of mass destruction!

hope they do-- these are great to tuck in tight corners and deploy as sceond monitors. I use the tripod/ADC model adjunct to my 20" Cinema iskplay-- they are the same height, it's a perfect aesthetic. (No, I have no life.)

But the timing went screwy for Apple's 17's under Tiger. I'm driving mine through the original NVidia TwinView card which came with the Dual 800 G4-- half ADC and half VGA-- and using a Gefen Extend-It converter the VGA to ADC worked perefctly through Jaguar, through Panther, and whoops, in Tiger I get a nice black band along the right edge-- which is beginning to burn a line!

So the nice folks at Gefen offer a reprogrmaming service to fix the Tiger issue. Since none of the software tools I've acquired help, it's worth the 25.00.

Still, if I get a new one, the timing better work in both Panther and Tiger and Leopard.

Who is actually writing your news articles nowadays? The quality of this one is so low that it is impossible to understand, more than in general terms, what you are talking about. Not one single sentence is grammatically correct. Remove it or rewrite it and please improve.