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Apple Discontinues Thunderbolt Display
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None of it's made up. It's reality.
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No point at all in using thunderbolt when USB 3.0 achieves the same thing for 1/5 the price of Thunderbolt... and it's obvious given how the general consumer has picked USB 3.0 over Thunderbolt anyway, USB completely dominates the market.
Tell me; of everyone you know, how many do you know that use USB 3 and how many use Thunderbolt?
I suggest a group of passionate investors to break up the Apple into 2 groups: iPhone/iPad & Macintosh. The main Apple business & core revenue will be iOS/watchOS/TVos only while a new company called Macintosh will be a much smaller company specializes in high powered desktop & well-specced laptops for content creation business/professionals, coders & gamers. I fear what some fear here: Apple may dissolve the whole Mac line-up completely.
firewire had waaaay better acceptance in the marketplace than Thunderbolt. It was a common feature on midrange and high end intel motherboards for a few years around the end of Core 2 series and the start of the iX CPUs. Hell even the first few versions of the Playstation 2 had a firewire port on them... that's probably more firewire devices right there than the entirety of every non-Apple Thunderbolt device ever made. Tons of audio interfaces had it, even some camcorders had it in the late 90s and early 00s. Thunderbolt has not and will never see that level of adoption. There's still only been a handful of PC motherboards which have included it. Only a handful of audio interface makers have embraced it. Besides those and hard drive products, I havent heard of any other thunderbolt products besides docks and Apple's display ....I'd liken it more to eSATA, which was another dreadful standard nobody wanted.
Oh Apple. You've become such a failure to me. It's amazing.
The pathetic thing about Thunderbolt is not that its not used, it's the INSANE price tag. I had a major dilemma at work;
I needed more storage seeing how my MacBook was running out space. I take my work laptop home all the time but I didn't want to be bogged down with it everytime. I asked my boss for an expense to buy another drive considering I really need it. So, I could go for either a 2TB external USB 3.0 eventhough my 2011 MBP doesn't have USB 3.0, but then I'd be limited to 480mbit transfer speeds, but in reality I get more like 45mb/sec. Not good considering drives are capable of about 100mb/s. OR, I could opt for a TB based drive and pay literally 2-3 times as much money for one, have my boss say NO and as an added bonus, limit the usage to ONLY Macs in the office (some people use PCs).
I went out and bought a 2.5" drive @ 2TB and replaced my MacBooks internal drive with it. Decided speed was a requirement and Thunderbolt was pointless. Had my laptop had USB 3.0, the choice would have been really obvious, but thunderbolt's just an overall stupid decision. At home I got USB 3.0 on all my computers and laptops... half of them have thunderbolt as well... but what good is the port when no drive can saturate even USB 3.0 speeds and even if it does, am I really going to pay so much more money JUST to be able to say 'yeah, I've got a TB drive!' ???
NOBODY I've come across has had a thunderbolt device. NOT ONE.
Apple's severely mentally disabled when it comes to thunderbolt. I just wish the port VANISHED completely and let everyone ride on the USB 3.0 gravy train and have absolutely everyone on a universal and inexpensive port where everyone can share any device with any other device.
WHY does Apple insist on this proprietary crap being so expensive? We all know the price has been artificially inflated... but WHY do they do it? Are they incompetent and havent clued in that the market prefers cheap and universal even if TB is technically superior? Or are they so full of themselves they actually think people are willing to pay so much money for TB?
Splitting Apple up could be a good idea.
I like it a lot actually. It's Mac division these days is so different than iPhone I watch etc
There's a thread condemning the possible of the headphone jack. I believe that's ~70 year old tech. It's nonsense.
The whole integrated GPU model idea is just such a bad idea on so many levels I don't where to start. Pro users do NOT buy such disposable type products that devalue so quickly without any upgrade potential. Who else can afford this thing?
There will be no market for this thing until they make it competitively priced and there is a Prosumer Mac Pro customer to buy it.
For that much money it's should just have a dedicated GPU in it. It should have an entire Apple TV unit inside it!
I don't think Steve Jobs would have come up with this dedicated GPU idea unless it was tied to something far bigger.
Apple's days of competing on the market in displays is long since past just like printers. Give it up and come with new ideas.
My thoughts: Why would apple announce a discontinuation if they intended to release a 5k display? (That's like saying we're discontinuing iMac, then releasing a 5k iMac. You don't. You just release it.) This leads me to believe it's a permanent discontinuation for the foreseeable future, which is too bad.
The people saying 'why bother' since there are bunch of really nice 4K displays out that work fairly well with Macs; that's not the point. The Thunderbolt Display is the only one that offers a complete setup. If you have a Mac mini or Mac Pro, the Thunderbolt Display allows you to get a display, camera, mic and speakers in one package. That is where it shines. And with a MacBook you get the convenience of instantly turning your laptop into a complete desktop setup with the Thunderbolt dock. The 3rd display, although amazing displays, don't have this convenience. At least none that I've seen thus far.
I wonder what this will do to the used price of the Thunderbolt Display. Will it go up or down?
The people saying 'why bother' since there are bunch of really nice 4K displays out that work fairly well with Macs; that's not the point. The Thunderbolt Display is the only one that offers a complete setup. If you have a Mac mini or Mac Pro, the Thunderbolt Display allows you to get a display, camera, mic and speakers in one package. That is where it shines. And with a MacBook you get the convenience of instantly turning your laptop into a complete desktop setup with the Thunderbolt dock. The 3rd display, although amazing displays, don't have this convenience. At least none that I've seen thus far.
I wonder what this will do to the used price of the Thunderbolt Display. Will it go up or down?
Merging of iOS devices with Mac...for better or worse....
With the superbly compact MacBook 12", MBA days are numbered......
I was comparing "tech" and it's age. A headphone jack is not in any way essential to listen music to or get calls on. And the iPhone is three times as expensive as similar devices. People buy them en masse.
Mac Mini:
Look at Intel with the NUC skull canyon. It's is an amazing product (quad core / skylake) and this is what the mini should have been. Tim and Jony should learn from it. They are two idiots and I am mad that Tim hasn't been fired yet.
I bough the skull, installed RAM and SSD in literally 1 minute. It is quiet, light, small, blazing fast and has USB-C/thunderbolt 3, display port and HDMI ports. Apple still sells the mini with 2 cores, soldered ram and good luck in replacing their overpriced SSD.
I wish whoever designed the Skull Canyon was right now the CEO of Apple
Look at Intel with the NUC skull canyon. It's is an amazing product (quad core / skylake) and this is what the mini should have been. Tim and Jony should learn from it. They are two idiots and I am mad that Tim hasn't been fired yet.
I bough the skull, installed RAM and SSD in literally 1 minute. It is quiet, light, small, blazing fast and has USB-C/thunderbolt 3, display port and HDMI ports. Apple still sells the mini with 2 cores, soldered ram and good luck in replacing their overpriced SSD.
I wish whoever designed the Skull Canyon was right now the CEO of Apple
Make room for me please, I'm on the same boat. Waiting for a - much - better MBP now.
I know it's old tech, but I really like my Thunderbolt display. It's the perfect compliment to my Macbook Pro.
I like the built in power cord and often use the firewire and thunderbolt port. Once I figured out how to beat the glare, I've been very happy with it.
I like the built in power cord and often use the firewire and thunderbolt port. Once I figured out how to beat the glare, I've been very happy with it.
Merging of iOS devices with Mac...for better or worse....
With the superbly compact MacBook 12", MBA days are numbered......
Just what everyone everyone needs, another disposable FRiZBEE! Good God. Doesn't anyone want a powerful computer?
I thought the topic of this story was the Thunderbolt display, not the Mac Mini.
Yes, there's a connector on the Monitor cable that uses one of your laptops USB ports, so you get a net two extra ports.
But you do understand that nobody bought them for their resolution in the last years, don´t you?