Trust me, I get Apple. As a lifetime Windows user I readily concede that they make the best laptops on the planet. The lack of bloat in OSX makes it a damned quick OS. What I don’t get is their unrealistic expectations when it comes to the price-tags on their monitors. Take the new LED Cinema Display. It is a beautiful monitor to be sure, but there are enough buts to put all but the most rabid fanbois off the purchase.

The extra 24-inches will be a welcome addition to folks tired of squinting at their laptop screens and the 1,920 x 1,200-pixel resolution will make for some awesome playback. It looks great, a worthy accompaniment to any unibody MBP, it has a spare set of controls, and according to all accounts is a sweet performer; Wired even went so far as calling it unparalleled.

It acts as a dock for the MBP, with a USB hub and an onboard MagSafe charge port; very convenient and what you would expect from something that is meant to extend Apple’s flagship notebooks.

But then there are the buts, and there are a few of them before you come anywhere near to the price. No DVI or HDMI, it uses mini DisplayPort. On the one hand, that is something that you would kind of expect, but given the size you would think that Apple would have built in a little bit more interoperability. It would be nice to be able to hook it up to a BluRay player or console as I do with my Samsung monitor.

But one deal breaker for me is that it doesn’t play nicely with Windows. Wired reports that it won’t work on an MBP via Boot Camp – something that seems more of a slight than an oversight.

The other deal breaker is the cost. While it might feature an arsenic-free screen backlit with mercury-free LEDs and offer “unparalleled performance” the price is a serious issue here. The fact is that I can get two pretty good 24-inch displays from Samsung or LG for the same amount of money. If it played nicely with my other gadgets I would consider the LED Cinema Display for $600 but not $900. I don’t need all that brightness, I normally turn my monitor brightness down. What I want is interoperability and value for money.

[Wired]

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People just don’t seem to be prepared to let this meme go the way of so many before. Does it have a little versatility or are people just clutching at straws? If nothing else, this t-shirt gets the clingers-on ready for the festive season.

Price: $20 [Fashionably Geek]

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If you want to give a major attention seeker a little attention or are just looking for a little light entertainment, you could head over to @GitEmSteveDave on Twitter and see people’s responses to him driving with a Starbucks cup mounted on the roof of his car by way of a magnet. Or, if like me you do not care what somebody you have never met (and would probably not get along with if you did meet) has stuck to their roof then you could avoid the page like the plague; either way.

Boing Boing was kind enough to post a sample of the fellow’s tweetings: “13 honks, 3 points, 2 mimes, 3 StopLightTells, 1 flash, 1 wave, 2 laughs, 5 AlongSideRiders, 4 2xTakes, & 1 cute girl took my picture.”

GitEmSteveDave was kind enough to teach others how to make a magnetic rooftop coffee cup, because such a hobby likely only appeals to people who don’t know how to stick a magnet in the bottom of a paper coffee cup; trust me it is not rocket science.

[BoingBoing]

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The Pisa Tower shelving unit gets its name after the famous tower and borrows some of the aesthetics, but leaves the wonky design at the door. The unit is made up of nesting boxes that sit on top of each other when they are skewed. A bit of extra stability is provided by way of an elastic rope.

If you don’t need a shelf, it functions as a perfectly good side table. Pretty cool, especially if you are the sort that moves house a lot.

[Industrial Design (Serbian) via Craziest Gadgets]

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Ah, construction zones – at the best of times they can make you late for things that you don’t really want to be on time for (work) and give you a reasonable excuse for your tardiness. Usually though, they just suck, which makes me wonder why anyone would want to make their dinner table look like a road construction zone.

Price: about $9.14 [Nerd Approved]

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