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Apple Thunderbolt Display

They're coming... I'm beta-testing a Thunderbolt to eSATA adapter right now, sorry can't say more than that.
 
So, it's a nice 27" monitor with Thunderbolt.

I'm a bit underwhelmed actually.

Now if they announced the 4K Apple Cinema Display they loaned to Intel for the Thunderbolt launch demo.... *that* would get me waiting in line at an Apple Store, if the price was half reasonable.

Wonder what they're going to do with that...

Mike
 
Mike 'Fireman' Ross said:
So, it's a nice 27" monitor with Thunderbolt.

I'm a bit underwhelmed actually.

Now if they announced the 4K Apple Cinema Display they loaned to Intel for the Thunderbolt launch demo.... *that* would get me waiting in line at an Apple Store, if the price was half reasonable.

Wonder what they're going to do with that...

Mike
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I kinda agree with you Mike, and we're definitely all eager for the 4k version ...

However, given the specs and features -- it's not a terrible value. Especially for those using
Mac and moving in the direction of Thunderbolt. Actually it's a pretty decent value
by Apple's standards and does some things that PC counterparts can't do for $1000.

I might get one and hopefully the 4k version is only 8-12 mos away :)
 
Alexander Alexandrov said:
Apart from the one u r testing, anyone knows if we'll see any this summer?
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I guess I can say a bit more. It's a Thunderbolt to dual eSATA and it has another TB port to daisy chain. Nice compact size and connector layout. I think the hardware is complete, but the drivers are still a bit buggy. Only supporting OSX Lion at release, they're planning to ship in October.
 
noahvolek said:
Pretending or foreshadowing?
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The same window shot is used on the Final cut pro page

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thundebolt cables are 50 dollars?????
 
price Thunderbolt cabling

price Thunderbolt cabling

if you know that Thunderbolt is 10GBit/s, and you know the pricing of 8GBit fibre cabling and SFP modules,
you would find the 49$ very cheap. Even comparing it to SAS 6Gbit cabling the Apple Thunderbolt pricing is not really premium.
 
Alexander Alexandrov said:
anyone knows of any thunderbolt adapters out there yet? for esata, FW, etc? card readers that plug into thunderbolt as well. i couldnt find ANY
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There will be some products released in the next few months, obviously for the Mac, but the floodgates won't open until next Spring when Thunderbolt makes it's splash on the PC with the new hardware.
 
You do realize that no one outside of Intel and Apple knew it was going to release, let alone any specs or development details, until the day the new Macbook Pros were release... Right? A few select providers, namely Promise and LaCie, got about 48 hours advance notice.

All things considered, it's moving along rather quickly. And a lot of manufacturers were reluctant to jump onto the Thunderbolt train initially for a few reasons: 1> Brand new, just released. 2> Only available on Macbook Pro, 3> Many had just invested tons of R&D and marketing into USB3.0 peripherals.

So far, Thunderbolt adoption has been going well. It's being picked up faster than USB3.0 was! USB3.0 really didn't catch on in the mainstream until the second half of last year... Nevermind that NEC shipped the first USB3.0 host chipset in 2008. Just ponder that for a moment. Now with Apple offering it on all their notebooks as well as the iMac and Mac Mini, soon on the Mac Pro, there's a lot more interest. Intel has announced that Thunderbolt support is coming soon on their new desktop and workstation platforms / motherboards. It's filtering into the market about as fast as anyone can expect. Which may not be as fast as we would hope. But Intel has only been sharing developer info and licensing for 5 months now. Only shipping official Thunderbolt developer kits for 3 months now. It can take several months just to set up manufacturing for a new product, not even considering the initial design and testing of that product. But if Intel had released all the specs and developer info first, peripheral makers would have ignored it until there were systems out there and a consumer base to sell to. They handled this just fine. We just have to be patient. Some Thunderbolt products are hitting the channel now from AJA, BMD, Promise (I already have their RAID), LaCie will have their TB Little Big Disk in the next 40~60 days, TB to eSATA from at least one manufacturer by the end of October... Sonnet has 7 different Thunderbolt products all releasing within the next 3 months. Two years from now, no one is going to remember the 8 month wait for all the peripherals in the beginning.

Apple really should have had this Thunderbolt display ready to go in February with the launch of the Macbook Pro update. Oh well...

Saw the new Macbook Airs today and played with one. That 1.8GHz i7 is pretty snappy. The new TB display is nice too. Same panel as the current iMac. A nice screen, but wish they had a non-glossy option. Fine for my office where I control the light, not so fine in a lot of other places.
 
No Esata, no USB3.0, no 10-bit colors, no 4K, no 3D... exactly what other then thunderbolt is good about this? Also if it's glossy it's even worse.
I'm not so sure who this display is for, consumers buy their laptops and Ipads, but this together with a 49 dollar cable isn't gonna make consumers happy.
Spend a little more and you can get a dreamcolor display from HP.
 
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