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The rumourmongers are at it again. It looks like supplies of Apple’s monster, £900 27-inch Thunderbolt display are selling out across the US, and stocks are even running low in the UK too. Does this mean Apple’s about to spit out a new, super-skinny iMac-like display?
Dwindling stock levels are always the first indicators that Apple’s about to either refresh, upgrade or replace models, so it’s not exactly farfetched. Apparently Apple’s shipping MagSafe 2 adapters with every Thunderbolt display to allow it to power the new MacBook line, so you’d assuming Cupertino kinda needs to do something about that soon. Plus, next to the sexy new iMac, the current Thunderbolt display looks positively chubster.
So, the new one will probably just be thinner, with a MagSafe 2, and USB3.0. But, I can’t be the only one who seriously craves that glorious 27-inch display with the one Thunderbolt cable dock. Perhaps we’ll suddenly see a price crash on the current generation Thunderbolt display if Apple pushes out a new one? Wishful thinking, perhaps. [Apple Insider]
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£900? Who actually buys this stuff?
What, are you serious? It’s got a black bezel and an apple logo on it. Why would you NOT spend £900 on one of these?
But seriously, I have heard that they are beautiful with excellent specs, for pro photographers and graphic designers this stuff matters. If you’re buying one for browsing facebook or a second screen to put iTunes on then you’re wasting your money.
You can get an as good IPS panel from any number of manufacturers!
I would have the apple one if I had that kind of cash burning a hole in my pocket!
And lets be honest, the do look very nice!
Most IPS displays @ 2560×1440 cost around £600-900, so its not ‘that’ overpriced considering it has a dock in it too but yeah it seams a bit silly.
Also I would prefer to have the thunderbolt dock and screen separate, I like to be able to upgrade different things at different times
Yeah I get that this might be the one piece of Apple hardware that isn’t marked up by a large percentage.
But I still don’t really know what consumers buy this. I understand the business use.
1. It’s pretty
2. It’s got a decent res
3. Macintosh uses different colour settings, you can’t really just plug a normal monitor in and it be alrighty you have to piss about calibrating the colour for use on a mac whereas this is calibrated right out the box for use with a mac.
4. It’s not that overpriced
5. AFAIK it’s the only monitor that has thunderbolt connectivity.
Oh and
6. it has a MacBook charger built in, brilliant
7. (Cancelling out 1-6) It’s £900. For a computer monitor.
Still don’t imagine it gets much attention from the consumer market.
kauzion
typing to fast, thought the reply box was the log-in box.
Was going to say
8. 1080p video will look ass on this display
9. Resolution is too high for gaming
1. Since when have Macs been used for gaming really? It’s a productivity computer, for making money not wasting it.
2. You can never have too big of a screen resolution. Ever. Ever ever. No matter how much power or how little GRAM you have.
This screen isn’t just for Macs, it’s just a monitor.
But for us as consumers, it’d suck at games and movies would need to be up-scaled or black-bordered.
Just sayin’
wouldn’t be surprised, look how thin the iMac is, this is just the iMac without the computer
except only about £200 cheaper than the iMac, which is the screen and the computer
YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZY TO BUY THIS!
I picked up the previous generation 27″ Cinema display from Comet when they slashed the price in the wake of the Thunderbolt version being released. Saved over £150. Within a day they price had returned to RRP once they’d realized that the screen hadn’t been replaced as older Mac’s wouldn’t support the newer thunderbolt display!
WINNING!