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Apple's Upcoming Hardware Refresh to Include Thunderbolt LED Display, Not MacBook
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I believe you should be able to do buy just one thunderbolt monitor, and daisy chain your old one to it. I could be wrong, if there's some (hidden) technical restriction from doing so.
Also if you go to their mac section http://www.apple.com/mac/ it no longer shows the pictures of the computers and is blank. Also the back to school thing it shows all their computers with lion backgrounds except for the macbook. Maybe it is going to still be upgraded?
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Apple site is acting goofy. I went under the Back to School link and all the computers BUT the basic MacBook had a Lion background. Now when I goto that same link those pics are missing and I just get "?" symbols.
The BTS page shows broken images now... Is it possible that their plan really was to release Lion this week, and their webpages were set to automatically update at a certain time? But due to human error, they forgot to cancel some of those updates?
Dunno.
Dunno.
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Awesome now I can use my mbp with a dual monitor setup. Just in time for Lion and full screen apps!
This is a bit off-topic, but I thought I'd throw this in for those contemplating dual ext. monitors w/ a MBP. You certainly don't have to wait for new laptops, Lion or Thunderbolt.
I've been using my 2006 MBP (15", 2ghz Duo, 2GB RAM) with dual monitors for over two years now.
The ATI 1600 w/256MB in my old laptop is more than enough to run the 1400x900 native display + two 1920x1080 22" Samsung monitors. I use a Matrox DualHead2Go to connect them. The driver essentially "fools" the GPU into thinking that there is just one big 3840x1080 monitor and then the Matrox breakout box divides the signal between the two monitors. Sure, I have to deal with the bezels, but I paid less than $500 for the whole rig two years ago for the ability to have my laptop drive a a three-screen 5,443,200 pixel workspace/desktop. For sake of comparison, that's more real estate than a MBP + a 27" Cinema display, or even a MBP + a 30" Cinema. Not as cool, but just as productive and 3x less than I would have paid for a big Apple display at the time I set it up. Ergonomically I think it's even better: I prefer the panorama of three horizontally aligned monitors vs, craning my neck up and down on one huge screen. My vertebrae swivel better than they flex!
I don't use my system for gaming or anything challenging for the GPU. I use it mostly for audio production in Logic, using one external monitor to arrange/edit the samples in a timeline and the other montior for displaying a 50+ channel mixer, leaving my laptop monitor for plug-ins, email & web.
If I were a gamer or pro graphic designer I wouldn't have done it this way, but for my application the system has been dynamite. YMMV, of course.
If you have 2 new thunderbolt external displays you will have at least 1 free thunderbolt port.
I am hoping each monitor has more than 2 thunderbolt ports. If not, I will be out of luck.
If the new ACD didn't have two TB ports, how else would the MBP able to achieve two external displays?
Both iMac and BTS pages missing pics
Even the first 3 iMac photos are "broken images" along with the Back to Schools photes as noted above. Mmmmmmm, such a tease.
Even the first 3 iMac photos are "broken images" along with the Back to Schools photes as noted above. Mmmmmmm, such a tease.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/ hope this helps sorry about the double post. posted on wrong post first time.
DisplayPort already supports daisy-chained displays
I don't know if anyone mentioned it yet (I don't have time to read the entire thread), but DisplayPort natively supports daisy-chaining multiple monitors together, go read the spec if you don't believe me (I read it a while back, it's very technical). What the real question should be is "Why did Apple not support this a long time ago?".
To be clear, Thunderbolt is not required to daisy-chain monitors, only having DisplayPort monitors that support it and drivers that do as well. There is no reason Apple can't ship monitors that support daisy-chaining that work on pre-Thunderbolt macs (that have DisplayPort). Apple being Apple though they could of course put on this arbitrary restriction (to make you buy a new Mac), but there is no technical reason for it.
I don't know if anyone mentioned it yet (I don't have time to read the entire thread), but DisplayPort natively supports daisy-chaining multiple monitors together, go read the spec if you don't believe me (I read it a while back, it's very technical). What the real question should be is "Why did Apple not support this a long time ago?".
To be clear, Thunderbolt is not required to daisy-chain monitors, only having DisplayPort monitors that support it and drivers that do as well. There is no reason Apple can't ship monitors that support daisy-chaining that work on pre-Thunderbolt macs (that have DisplayPort). Apple being Apple though they could of course put on this arbitrary restriction (to make you buy a new Mac), but there is no technical reason for it.