no, it really wasn't. supper glossy and reflective with a very limited gamut.
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Apple Discontinues Thunderbolt Display
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I wonder how many Mac Pros they've sold. You know the one that looks like a cylinder. Genius design, borrowed from supercomputers. It almost doesn't matter. Apple makes the Mac Pro just because they can. It's like a stick in the eye of the entire PC industry. Johnny Ive saying "I can flat out design a futuristic computer better than anyone else. Just because I can. Eat it suckas.".
I'm hoping so, but I haven't exactly been wowed since Tim Cook took the reins. (Not that Jobs didn't make mistakes.) Here's hoping the September keynote doesn't disappoint... (again)
huh? I said nothing about any stock. Think you meant to quote someone else or if you didn't you missed the joke.
We wish they were even thinking about Apple products. Tim is preparing his next speech about the shooting in Orlando and the LGBT community for his next trip. He is checking in with his iPad and FaceTime with Apple's technical department on how to better take selfies when abroad and what sim card would work in the country is heading to. He also asked the design department to make some new watch bands because he is getting tired of his.
I see Apple being in the Display business similar to Sony's history with televisions. Sony made the best televisions at one time and consumers wanted the best. But then the competition was able to make televisions that were almost as good and more competitively priced. That's how it is with Apple. They used to have some of the best displays in the business and most people who bought a Mac generally wanted an Apple display. But over time, Samsung and LG have figured out how to make displays that were just as good if not better than what Apple was doing and was able to make them competitively priced. They were even able to copy Apple's appealing minimalist aesthetic and that's something nobody was able to do (or cared enough to do) years ago.
While Apple didn't outright say they were leaving the display market, it wouldn't surprise me if they did. After all, this isn't the first time Apple has abandoned a market. Apple left the printing business after Steve Jobs returned even though their printers and scanners were highly regarded. They left the server market. They have almost abandoned the MP3 player market. The reality is markets change and companies have to change as well.
While Apple didn't outright say they were leaving the display market, it wouldn't surprise me if they did. After all, this isn't the first time Apple has abandoned a market. Apple left the printing business after Steve Jobs returned even though their printers and scanners were highly regarded. They left the server market. They have almost abandoned the MP3 player market. The reality is markets change and companies have to change as well.
Yeah so genius only Johnny could like it - meanwhile in reality most of the Mac Pro forum can't stand the thing.
I bet you have an MBA. is that how you figure that "systems" don't have monitors? Apple has been offering monitors continuously since the Apple II came out. the vast majority of the products they sell come with a monitor (built in screen). And for roughly 35 years they've consistently offered high quality and innovative monitors. it's only been the last 4 or 5 years that they stopped trying.
Apple's new business strategy - codename "donut" - is to have all peripherals and nothing on your desk worth connecting them to.
Have they ever cancelled something with a pending update? I can't find any example of it. You might take note that the 17" macbook pro never returned, yet they sold the 2010 version of the mac pro until the end of 2012.
The imac has received more updates than the mac mini. It received a design update in 2012 and the 5K update last year. The thunderbolt display was an update to the 2009 27" cinema display. It hasn't received any updates since its inception. It did not receive the same screen coating update as the imac.
You're more likely to see the mini on the chopping block than anything else. I could see them axing the Air too if they were willing to drop the price on the macbook pro. Storage keeps dropping in price on Apple's end, so they might leverage this. The 13" could also get pretty close to the Air's weight in the near future.
how about for abandoning yet another product that used to be respected and appreciated. no one is suggesting they should have kept selling the same model as they did, rather they should have kept updating it with the the tech in the updates to the iMacs, as that is obviously where the original 27" LED display was lifted from.
this is the BEST COMMENT EVER made!!!
Announcing discontinuation without a replacement sounds like Apple is leaving the monitor business. It doesn't take a genius to extrapolate what that might portend for a new Mac Pro. Hopefully Mac Pros are updated but I'm not sanguine.
Tim Cook was planning to release a new model in Rose Gold while moving the cord cutouts over by 1mm and call it 'exciting', 'new' and 'innovative' until it was realized it is not proprietary enough with enough adapters to continue overcharging on 4yr old technology.
The fact that Apple has confirmed that the Thunderbolt Display has been discontinued, without an announcement of a 4K/5K replacement implies that there is no replacement in the pipeline?
If Apple was intending on announcing a 4K/5K display soon that wouldn't have confirmed the death of the current display.
Apple view of a desktop is an iMac. This is not my view. At lower end the Mac mini is now only dual, not quad, core pushing people to the iMac. The new Mac Pro, that isn't all that new, and the top-of-the-line iMac are both more high end in terms of price than when the Apple transitioned to Intel. This is pushing more people to the iMac. For example a decade ago many photographers, even amateur, would get a Mac Pro (Power Mac G4/G5), now Apple is forcing/encouraging them to get an iMac.
Apple has not only ignored their stand alone display and put the new high res panels in the iMac, they have also discouraged people from buys Mac desktops that require a display. It is even worst when you consider that the Thunderbolt Display was fairly expensive for a mini and many Mac Pro buys would get a specialist non-Apple display. I think that the main use of the Thunderbolt Display in the last few years was attached to a MBP.
If Apple was intending on announcing a 4K/5K display soon that wouldn't have confirmed the death of the current display.
Apple view of a desktop is an iMac. This is not my view. At lower end the Mac mini is now only dual, not quad, core pushing people to the iMac. The new Mac Pro, that isn't all that new, and the top-of-the-line iMac are both more high end in terms of price than when the Apple transitioned to Intel. This is pushing more people to the iMac. For example a decade ago many photographers, even amateur, would get a Mac Pro (Power Mac G4/G5), now Apple is forcing/encouraging them to get an iMac.
Apple has not only ignored their stand alone display and put the new high res panels in the iMac, they have also discouraged people from buys Mac desktops that require a display. It is even worst when you consider that the Thunderbolt Display was fairly expensive for a mini and many Mac Pro buys would get a specialist non-Apple display. I think that the main use of the Thunderbolt Display in the last few years was attached to a MBP.
get a used iMac on eBay. Just got a new 27" 5K iMac and using my late 2009 27" iMac as a second screen connected with a mini display port from the 2009 mini display port to the new iMacs thunderbolt port.
Identical! chins and all!
It was about 5 years ago.
There are plenty of better displays by Asus, NEC, Samsung HP and Dell.
If color space is at all a concern for you, you are better off buying a current monitor of equivalent or better resolution, but much broader color gamut. Likely two for the price of one TB display.
Also the super reflective display is awful in offices with lots of overhead fluorescents. (every office ever).
I've been pining for Apple to update this for the last 3 years or so.
I've got a shiny new Mac Pro that would love a matching LCD (in space gray?).
Alas I got sick of waiting for Ive to decide which Braun design to rip off, so I bought an Asus with a nice broad color gamut.
Every year people hope for a new Mac Pro or Cinema display offering from Tim Cook and every year they get one:
It seems to me that Apple is making 2016 the year for killing off legacy hardware: Thunderbolt displays, MacBook Air (mark my words), next up.... The iPod line will be replaced with a new "stream" friendly line compatible with Apple Music.
Apple is all about cloud services now. Hardware is simply a shell you use to access them.
Apple is all about cloud services now. Hardware is simply a shell you use to access them.
On the contrary, it might allow for the return of a more traditional Mac Pro (expandable tower design). If there are no Thunderbolt monitors, then Apple can simply provide TB3 ports on the Logic board (for use with high speed storage etc.) and use run-of-the mill workstation-class graphics cards with DisplayPort and HDMI outputs. This negates then need to run TB through the graphics card.
Riiiiiight ...
That makes at least that thousandth time I've read something like this, and Apple just continues to print money.
I lost the mojo a long time ago. I think it was the downgraded "new" Mac Mini for me. I think it's been obvious to even the most diehard Apple fan that the company was in the process of de-prioritizing the Macintosh on a substantial scale. They have seen the mountain top and it is phones/pads, and maybe there's a place in there for the MacBook line as well. Hence, the soldering of everything internal.
As long as the only true commercial alternative is Windows, however, I've had to hold my nose and hang in.
Anyone just coming to this realization now, however, can't really be serious, though. I mean, external monitors are the final straw?
I know, I know, deep-down, you hope someone at Apple HQ sees your post, stands up, declares "We're losing PickAxe! This will not stand! Sound the alert, boys, we have a customer in need!", and then springs into action.
We've all been there. We've all written our opuses 20 times over. Then we wait a little while until everyone forgets, then sneak back.
Even in your frustration, I see what you did. You left yourself an out. "If the MacBook Pro isn't great, you'll leave. " Come on. Who are you kidding? It's us, remember? Even if the MacBook Pro refresh is lame, face it, it will somehow be enough.
It always is, isn't it?
Us Apple customers are like the battered spouses of the consumer world. We always say it's the last time, but we always come back. We never leave. Not really. I mean, we leave a thousand times, then, here we are again.
And so you will be too.
Accept it.