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Apple Discontinues Thunderbolt Display (macrumors.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple has officially told several news sites that it plans to discontinue the Thunderbolt Display, which has been available online and in Apple retail stores since it was first introduced in 2011. "We're discontinuing the Apple Thunderbolt Display. It will be available through Apple.com, Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers while supplies last. There are a number of great third-party options available for Mac users," said an Apple spokesperson. Rumors suggest that Apple will launch a new version of its Thunderbolt monitor later this year, featuring an upgraded 5K resolution and discrete GPU. The new Thunderbolt Display may even launch alongside next-generation Skylake Retina MacBook Pros, which too are rumored to be released later this year. fyngyrz writes: So, bought into the whole Thunderbolt monitor thing from Apple? Might want to collect a few right now, while you still can. It appears that the Thunderbolt monitor is going the way of the analog [headphone] jack over at Apple. Isn't it fun to be part of an unsuccessful experiment?
For us, the problem was the cost. The Apple monitor costs £900. The 4K monitors that we're buying cost about £200. For four times the price, we get a worse display. The hub features were not worth paying £600 for and putting up with fewer pixels.
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Untrue. I'm using a Thunderbolt Display with my Dell laptop right now. Just needs a real Thunderbolt port, which was somewhat rare on PCs until well after Macs.
What's so "lololol" about it? It was a pretty good connector. To this day, I sometimes use a machine that uses it. The setup is super clean: the only cables I have are power from the wall to the tower, ADC from the tower to the monitor, USB from monitor to keyboard, USB from keyboard to mouse. Everything plugs in to the next in a chain and it works wonderfully.