Whoa, check out this eBay auction! These displays never came in green...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=81687&item=5127852267&rd=1
I bet it's a prototype or something.
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That's actually normal. The original Studio Displays came in a dark green/black casing, but when the Blue & White G3 and its CRT monitor came out, Apple switched the color scheme. Not a prototype at all.
Oh. I'd only ever seen them in these two color schemes:
and (pretty bad pic, but it works)
So the green and white came in between these two?
Yep.
http://www.everymac.com/monitors/apple/studio_cinema/specs/apple_studio_display_blue.html
I had one, too. Fantastic monitor -- I really, really loved it.
Alas, the main video board blew on it, exactly two years and two weeks after I purchased it - which particularly sucked because the cc I used to buy it doubled the 1-year warranty.
Sold the PSU on LEM Swap a few months later, and then just a couple of months ago I finally sold the rest on eBay. Wound up recouping about $100 of my original $800 cost that way. Oh well.
Replaced it and all my other gear with a G4 iMac (this was spring '02 when they first came out), so all turned out well.
Matt
Dude, how many colors did this thing come in?
All blue, white and green, white and grey, and now white and blue? Man, which one should I get?
Rev. A - dark purplish grey
Rev. B - Blue and White (looks greenish in the eBay pic)
Rev. C - graphite and white
That's it. Any other variations are from camera and lighting differences.
Best,
Matt
Thanks so much. Are there are differences other than color between the three models?
Rev. A and B are, according to Apple, totally identical except for two aspects. One is the color of their case plastics (I wonder if the B&W G3s were originally supposed to be smoky grey-purple?). The other is that Rev. A has a Mac-style DB15 monitor cable, whereas the Rev. B uses a VGA monitor cable (i.e. different connectors at the end of the cable).
Rev. C is very similar, but its built in hub is USB, whereas Revs A and B have built-in ADB hubs. The Rev. C is also a pure digital DVI monitor with a DVI monitor connector (whereas the others are analog RGB with the aforementioned connectors).
The Rev. C also has fewer rear ports and fewer front controls. Unlike the others, it does not support video (i.e. it can't be used as an analog TV/video monitor), it uses a different power management system, and it uses a different method to interpolate pixels when run at non-native resolutions.
Finally, the Rev. A and Rev. B system requirements are any Power Mac running System 7.5 or higher, whereas the Rev. C officially requires an AGP-based G4 running OS 9.0 or higher.
Matt