Digital BW, The Print

AnneMarie,

I use an Apple Cinema 20" monitor with a Macbook pro.  I cannot comment on the relative quality of the monitor, but it is very easy to use an external monitor with a Mac.  You simply connect the monitor to the laptop and then after the screen shows the connection, close the top of the Macbook and let it go to sleep.  If you then wake it with a mouse or external keyboard, it comes up on the monitor.

It is also possible to use both but I have not seen a reason to do so with PS.

Steve
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> I want to thank you guys for your advice thus far. I started looking into  the Eizo. It seems available only online and I don't want to blindly buy something I've never seen nor tried. I also thought about the Samsung but remember using one years ago and hating how I lost so much detail in the blacks but maybe technology has changed since.
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> Funny, though, I noticed that no one here as mentioned Apple's cinema displays at all. Are they that bad or is it just a matter of expense? I plan on taking a CD of some of my images to the Apple store to check it out but if there is a lot of opposing to that, I'd like to know what it's about.
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> One last thing - how cumbersome is using a laptop with a separate monitor? It seems like the laptop screen might get in the way. How do you set it up for use? 
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> By the way, this is just for my home studio.
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> Thank you again for all your advice.
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> AnnMarie
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