The new Thunderbolt Display is going to be the same resolution and everything...just with USB 3. Mark my words.
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Thunderbolt Display Stock Limited at Apple Stores Ahead of WWDC
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Less than two weeks until we find Apple still has a fragment of sanity left you're proven wrong.
The point is that you can connect anybody's monitor to a Mac pro.Anyone who wants to buy an Apple-brand display to connect to a Mac Mini should be forcibly escorted to the iMac section of the store.
What if you want an Apple display on an non Apple computer. Along with all the other reason people listed, there are reasons to sell this.
Plus, knowing Apple, the margins on this display are probably really high so what is the downside for them?
They took a risky bet in assuming that Thunderbolt was the next technological breakthrough. And as it turned out, they were dead-wrong.
A technological dead-end from a mainstream-consumer perspective.Time to move along. The panels werent that great anyways: Almost every one showed different colors with white-to-yellow gradients some time. Not possible to calibrate properly. Horrible Quality Control, especially considering their asking price.
A technological dead-end from a mainstream-consumer perspective.Time to move along. The panels werent that great anyways: Almost every one showed different colors with white-to-yellow gradients some time. Not possible to calibrate properly. Horrible Quality Control, especially considering their asking price.
I love my Thunderbolt Display, it looks fantastic and being able to attach two FW800 drives, a USB drive, a phone dock and an Ethernet connection to my laptop in one cable is amazing. It hasn't been the most reliable, and Apple did have to replace it with a retail unit after two failed repairs, but (touch wood) it's been fine since.
I just can't help thinking: why now to update it? Maybe someone more familiar with Intel release cycles and what each architecture supports can enlighten me. I just think that they've waited 5 years, why not wait another one and a bit to build a proper 5K TBD which can connect to all their latest Cannonlake computers with one cable? I'm not sure what they'd do to it this year, besides adding USB 3 and a newer design. Maybe it will be 4K, but then wouldn't it look strange next to a 27" 5K iMac? Maybe it will be 21.5" with a 27" coming 2017?
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DisplayPort 1.3 was approved in 2014, yet here we are in 2016 and Intel (a participating company in the DisplayPort standard) still doesn't supply a chip that supports 1.3, and apparently won't have one for the rest of the year.
Who would've ever thought that Intel would become such a joke?
Who would've ever thought that Intel would become such a joke?
The point is that you can connect anybody's monitor to a Mac pro.Anyone who wants to buy an Apple-brand display to connect to a Mac Mini should be forcibly escorted to the iMac section of the store.
Uh, no. Many want an affordable computer that, in the event of service needs, can be connected to another display. (And not a laptop … in reality they can't take the heat driving a large display) I bought my current 27" 5K iMac because mac mini wasn't powerful enough, mac pro was way too expensive for what you get, and Apple's T-bolt display is insultingly outdated. I like it, but it was not my first choice. I'm a small one-man design co. with not a lot of disposable income for back-up machines, so in the event this thing needs servicing, I'll be scrambling and likely doing work on my wife's macbook air for a while. Eek!
Good questions. Get out the crystal ball … and when we do find out, it probably won't make a ton of sense!
New Mac Pro + New Display at WWDC = Happy Pro Users. Fingers crossed.
They might sell it cheaper than the iMacs....which is something I'm looking forward to. $999 for a display is too much...I dont care how accurate it is.
So is there any way a 5K display would even be possible? Could they put a GPU in the display itself for example?
It sounds like even if new MacBooks were announced at WWDC, they still wouldn't be able to drive 5K based on the current DisplayPort specs... I have a hard time seeing them making a 4K display since in Retina-mode that would actually be a "real-estate" downgrade from the current Thunderbolt display.
Would they "upgrade" the display without going 5K? That would seem odd at this juncture.
It sounds like even if new MacBooks were announced at WWDC, they still wouldn't be able to drive 5K based on the current DisplayPort specs... I have a hard time seeing them making a 4K display since in Retina-mode that would actually be a "real-estate" downgrade from the current Thunderbolt display.
Would they "upgrade" the display without going 5K? That would seem odd at this juncture.
True. But I dont see them offering a 5K display thats priced higher than the 5K iMac.
Well yeah the $999 was relative to what the imac was worth in 2011. So anything less than $1799 im fine with that. I meant the current Thunderbolt Display was overpriced.
If Apple waits for Intel on everything, then certainly there will be no progress.
Fortunately the Thunderbolt display is not a DisplayPort display, so maybe Apple can just roll their own Thunderbolt video protocol... or use external PCI. Please Apple, make this happen.
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I find it very hard to find displays for half the price with the same quality... The quality of the cinema LED was atrocious... If you had only one, it was good enough for anything but photo editing. If you had more than one display, you were literally lost on color space... Calibration was futile.
It was. Like most Apple products. But that's not even the problem in my eyes. It just had a bad quality control. I couldn't find two displays in the same color space. White was never white.
Good luck! We jumped the same gun on Apple's Display Solutuions. 3 out of 20 LED Cinema Displays are dead within 5 years of regular use. Thanks to AppleCare, we could get 2 of them repaired. These displays were _not_ good.. By any standards. And not cheap neither.
The LED Cinema Display featured Dell panels, if I'm not completely mistaked. But if anyone knows better, please correct me on this.
Hate to disagree here... But no, it was the quality. The price, we did not mind. Some people are happy to pay the Apple tax for premium. My boss did. Price he did not mind, but the quality was really bad. Durability as well as accuracy. Not to mention the rediculous power draw!
You're still using a LED Thunderbolt - display? I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you as well. Good luck! As I did not have any with these displays...
