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Apple 27" Thunderbolt Displays Shipping to Stores

Speaker out jack

dagamer34 said:
I wisH it has a speaker out jack so I only need two cables to connect to my laptop. I use my own speakers so I have to con rectify directly to the laptop itself.
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I'm getting myself a Thunderbolt display.

I will be able to use my own speakers by plugging a usb speaker jack into the display's USB jack and plugging the speaker cable into the USB speaker jack. I got mine via eBay for $2.84 including shipping - and it works !!!
 
Excellent. I'm still using the 2006 tech before the camera and speakers were built in. Remember those days? I'm still using an old iSight from 2002... primitive and bulky.

Thunderbolt will make the entire Apple package very attractive.
 
japanime said:
Gotta get me one of these.

Why is it, though, they show the Mac Mini attached to the display with just a Thunderbolt cable. You can't power a device through the T-bolt cable, can you?
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No, you can't. But the point of the picture is to emphasize the connection between the Mac and the display. There's also no power cords. And you can't operate OS X without some kind of input device (mouse, keyboard, Magic Trackpad).

They're also floating in mid-air. :p
 
lilo777 said:
$824.25 (link)

and even $769.30 (with free shipping) - link
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man, i currently have the dell 2209wa (a cheap IPS) and its pretty amazing too. i can vouch for the quality even though its all plastic w/ whacky looking vent holes. speaking of aesthetics, this is where apple wins and this is where they get my money. luckily, i can do without dvi, hdmi, and other rca ports.
 
ChrisA said:
For $1,000 I'd think maybe Apple could have sprung for an anti-glare coating. Who'd buy this when Others sell a monitor that has a better screen. I guess it gives yo a reason to use the TB port but that novelty where off quickly. What matters is the screen
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Actually, the iMac and ACD LCDs do have a matte coating, not anti-glare, but true matte with no sparkles. If you remove the glass, there's still a glossy layer over the LCD, which can be removed to reveal the matte LCD surface. This can be done if you don't care about the warranty. I can't remember if it was on MacRumors or the Notebook Review Apple forums, but a year, or so ago, a thread was posted with full photographic directions on how to achieve this. It involved removing the LCD and using moist towels over the edges to initiate delaminating of the glossy layer so that it could be peeled off.

Besides the warranty implications, other drawbacks with this mod are that it is not reversible, and the LCD has no protective surface. You could add a matte screen protector, but that would introduce sparkles. Besides no glass, the matte MBPs have the glossy layer removed from the LCD, at the expense of surface protection.
 
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Wah! No matte! Wah!
I thought people would have stopped whining about this by now...

But seriously... I thought this was already available in the wild. Oops.
 
lilo777 said:
Do I really need to educate people here that unlike with Apple nobody buys PC hardware for MSRP? You can get this monitor from DELL for even less. You just might need to wait a few weeks. Here are a couple of examples of [expired] coupons that dropped the price on this monitor to:

$824.25 (link)

and even $769.30 (with free shipping) - link
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Sorry, I haven't waited around to clip coupons since I was a grad student. I have a full-time job, and I have a personal life.
 
I have found that the USB ports on the back of my 27" Apple Cinema Display are not convenient to use. Thus, I guess that all the ports on the back of the new Apple Thunderbolt Display are also inconvenient to use. It is possible for Apple to put these ports on a side of the display?
 
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And for those with just plain 'ole Mini DisplayPort? What are are options, O never-failing Apple?!
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Cinema LED Display is still available and awesome as before. WIth mDP you can plug DIV, HDMI, VGA... you just can't plug this as far i know.

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Marx55 said:
No matte display is a deal breaker. It is a health and productivity issue. No matte, no purchase. Full stop. Sign the matte display petition at MacMatte as thousands have already done:
http://macmatte.wordpress.com
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My workmate told that crap for years then when he bought a MBP13... he started to say he love glossy lol.

I'm health and i'm using an iMac27" and before i had a 24" inch Cinema LED Display, i work on it and i do graphics on it.
 
Current machines

I'd really like actual confirmation of the ability to use this with a DisplayPort-no-Thunderbolt Macbook Pro as well. Please let us know when you have this working, lucky monitor owners!
 
I wonder if someone will release a thunderbolt cable that has 2 dvi out so we can plug 2 monitors we already own into our mbps
 
Sjhonny said:
No, (mini) displayport is 100% compatible with TB. TB offers the same as a Displayport & more (superset).
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Just don't try to hook up a displayport cord to a Thunderbolt equipped mac. There is a huge list of people with 24" ACD that flicker on the 2011 macs. Sorry if this has already been mentioned in this list - I couldn't manage to read everyone's comments about the "value" of apple vs. dell monitors. I love apple's monitors but am pissed about this now 6-month old issue.
 
Am I the only one who thinks Apple should sell a 21" version too?

They make 21" and 27" iMacs, but only a 27" external display. For the same reasons one might want a smaller iMac, one could want a smaller display.

And why the HECK doesn't the 27" display line up perfectly with the 27" iMac? it makes things look ugly. You'd think that Apple, of all people, would make things "perfect" and streamlined

http://deanjrobinson.com/image/27-inch-imac-cinema-display-would-be-more-awesome-if/
 
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I'd buy two thunderbolt displays if I knew that my current gen 17" MBP wouldn't sound like a jet engine.

The last thing I want to hear is fans blaring when I'm using two displays.
 
I just pre ordered the TB 27-inch last week and it will be awesome if i get it by this week, but my delivery date says Sept 16
 
Yumunum said:
Am I the only one who thinks Apple should sell a 21" version too?

They make 21" and 27" iMacs, but only a 27" external display. For the same reasons one might want a smaller iMac, one could want a smaller display.?
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No, you're not the only one. I also had wanted Apple to make one too before. It would have been the perfect companion display for the 21.5" and even a more viable option for "Apple-only" Mac mini and Macbook buyers.

But now I'm sort of leaning for them to skip to a 23" display, while also updating the iMac 21.5" to 23" as well. The size disparity between the 21.5" and 27" is sort of huge, don't you think?

Yumunum said:
And why the HECK doesn't the 27" display line up perfectly with the 27" iMac? it makes things look ugly. You'd think that Apple, of all people, would make things "perfect" and streamlined

http://deanjrobinson.com/image/27-inch-imac-cinema-display-would-be-more-awesome-if/
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This is a common complaint amongst iMac and ACD users. Yea, I really wish I knew why Apple did this. Very ugly indeed, I agree.
 
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