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Apple Thunderbolt Display Teardown Reveals Plethora of Hardware Inside

rdlink said:
And I say you're wrong. I like my glossy screens. All of them. The one on my MBA, the one on my iMac, and the two on my 23" Dell Ultras on my desk at work. Guess what. Obviously a lot of other people do, also. A lot more people are buying them and using them (without issue) than whining. Go buy and ugly matte screen in another brand. But do us all a favor and give it a rest.
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tell that to anyone whos a graphic designer or photographer that relies on proper colour reproduction and none of apple's Mirror Screen Coating™
 
I have the apple cinema display and the dell ultrasharp. The Dell sucks. Grainy and dull looking and not as bright as the apple.
 
plethora:

According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and most other dictionaries, this word refers (and has always referred) to an overabundance, an overfullness, or an excess. The phrase a plethora of is essentially a highfalutin equivalent of too many —e.g.: “Our electoral politics now is beset with a plethora of [read too many ] players and a confusing clutter of messages.” ( Brookings Review; Jan. 1, 2002.) But sometimes, when not preceded by the indefinite article, the word is genuinely useful—e.g.: “Critics say the plethora of scrip circulating in Argentina risks running out of control.” ( Wall Street Journal; Dec. 26, 2001.)

Unfortunately, through misunderstanding of the word's true sense, many writers use it as if it were equivalent to plenty or many. This meaning is unrecorded in the OED and in most other dictionaries. And it represents an unfortunate degeneration of sense

-OS X dictionary
 
we agree....

hchung said:
If you want USB 3.0 over thunderbolt, might want to start without the external monitor or wait until thunderbolt channels get faster.
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I want something a lot faster than USB 2.0, and I want it now. I don't want to wait for something that's 9.7x faster than USB 2.0 - I want to use something that's 9.5x faster and is available now.

USB 3.0 on TBolt would certainly be a huge improvement over USB 2.0. It might be slightly slower than USB 3.0 built into the CPU chip or chipset, but it should be much better than USB 2.0 or 1394.

And yes, of course, every reasonable protocol has measureable overhead - and serial protocols probably have more overhead than parallel busses.

Anyway, your first post said that the main problem was not using enough lanes, and then you launched into a "PCIe sucks regardless" mode when I suggested that more lanes would be better.
 
AidenShaw said:
I want something a lot faster than USB 2.0, and I want it now. I don't want to wait for something that's 9.7x faster than USB 2.0 - I want to use something that's 9.5x faster and is available now.
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Here ya go: http://store.apple.com/us/product/H...4gbit-s-fibre-channel-adapter?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY

Oh... you wanted 10x faster than USB 2.0 but for the same low, low price. Just hang in there a little longer, 6 months from now and you'll get your SuperSpeed USB fix.

I want my new iPhone already. Sheesh, I've had the same damn phone for 15 months!
 
repoman27 said:
Here ya go: http://store.apple.com/us/product/H...4gbit-s-fibre-channel-adapter?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY

Oh... you wanted 10x faster than USB 2.0 but for the same low, low price. Just hang in there a little longer, 6 months from now and you'll get your SuperSpeed USB fix.

I want my new iPhone already. Sheesh, I've had the same damn phone for 15 months!
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LOL to compare USB and Fibre Channel.

The real point is that Apple had to put a third party USB controller in the TBolt Display.

They could just as easily and cheaply used the NEC USB 3.0 controller as the USB 2.0 controller and hub that it used (or use both).
 
I'll take my Dell any day

Ok, I have a 23" Dell, but if I wanted a 27", I'd take the Dell any day. The whole docking thing is a bunch of BS, if you really want to minimize cabling, you can get a USB sound card and USB gigabit adapter and only have three cables, USB, MDP, and power. As it is, the most you would ever need is 5. That's what I have, MagSafe, MDP, USB, and audio. My second USB port is for my travel mouse's adapter which stays there permanently. So Anand's 7 cables is either fabricated, or Anand needs to learn how to set up a decent fake docking station.

My "docking" cable harness is:

1. 85 Watt Magsafe
2. 100mbps ethernet (used sometimes)
3. MDP to VGA for my 23" Dell Ultrasharp
4. USB that goes to two hubs (on in the Ultrasharp) has 6TB of disks, mouse, keyboard, iPod, phone, etc
5. Audio
 
Am I the only one that thinks the thunderbolt port in the second picture is laughing at me? :D
 
repoman27 said:
Their whole current design language revolves around aluminum and glass, which is being received quite well compared to all the plastic out there. There is no good way to make a piece of glass matte. You're welcome to apply any of the antiglare films which are readily available, but there are good reasons why Apple doesn't do this.
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Is there a reason why Apple can't use a piece of glass with a good anti-reflective coating on it:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Anti-reflective_coating

such as decent CRT monitors used to have?
 
jnpy!$4g3cwk said:
Is there a reason why Apple can't use a piece of glass with a good anti-reflective coating on it:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Anti-reflective_coating
such as decent CRT monitors used to have?
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I think that Apple and other manufacturers made glossiness a trend, when it made otherwise cheap & crappy tn-screens to look a little better.
Now that even phones have ips, maybe Apple's $3k flagship laptop will also have good quality screen within next couple of years.
And after that maybe Ive's can come up with nice design without double reflection.
I'd hate enough even one reflection, so Apple's double reflection displays are permanent no to me.
 
dell LCD inside apple cinema display

I wonder if you could put the dell LCD inside the apple cinema case?
get those 1 billion colours in a nice case..
 
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