Apple 27″ Thunderbolt/Cinema Display DPI

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I've recently purchased an Apple Thunderbolt 27" display and having connected my second monitor side by side, I can see the DPIs between the two displays are different.

My other monitor, a Samsung SyncMaster is 92dpi, so what DPI is the Thunderbolt display (and by inference) the Cinema Display?

Apple's site just lists the the dimensions and the panel size and you can estimate using basic math that the DPI is approximately 109.

However being the fact fascist that I am, 109dpi just sounds plain wrong; so either the assumption that the pixels are square is wrong, or the dpi is wrong (say 108 or 110) and the display is not quite 27"

Is there any empirical evidence of the display's DPI or pixel structure that will cement the DPI figures?

Is there an official statement from Apple (perhaps a slide in a Keynote somewhere) thats shows the actual DPI, or tech document I've missed that states it.

Best Answer

Your calculation is solid. Everywhere I've seen it 109 PPI (which is probably what you intend with DPI) is what people report for the Thunderbolt Cinema Display:

The TUAW article has this nice picture to catalog various pixels per inch densities:

TUAW illustration of PPI

The linked article above even has a Google-hosted spreadsheet with details on the data behind the table.