“It looks like the reports of Apple shipping its Thunderbolt Display ($999 direct) are true after all,” Laarni Almendrala Ragaza reports for PC Magazine. “After announcing it in July, the Cupertino-based company is now shipping pre-ordered units to consumers. We got our hands on one of the first.”
“The Thunderbolt Display’s edge-to-edge glass screen has a 2,560-by-1,440 resolution and a 16:9 aspect ratio. It utilizes IPS (in-plane switching) technology for viewing images,” Ragaza reports. “The display also comes with several connectivity features, including three USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port, a Gigabit Ethernet port, and, of course, Thunderbolt, for daisy chaining other Thunderbolt-equipped devices. There is a built-in FaceTime HD video camera, as well as a 2.1 speaker system.”
Ragaza reports, “The monitor’s Thunderbolt I/O technology features two bi-directional channels with claimed transfer speeds up to 10Gbps each. That means that each Thunderbolt port delivers PCI Express directly to external peripherals, such as high-performance storage and RAID arrays. It also supports DisplayPort for high-resolution displays and works with existing adapters for HDMI, DVI, and VGA displays.”
Full article, with a slideshow of close-up images, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]