“Apple’s long-in-the-tooth, $999 Thunderbolt Display — last updated in 2011 — has been discontinued,” Dennis Sellers writes for Appel World Today. “What’s more worrisome is that no replacement has been mentioned.”
“I’m betting on a new monitor with 5K support being introduced with new MacBook Pros sometime in September or October,” Sellers writes. “If not Apple is making a serious mistake.”
“Such a display didn’t appear at the recent Worldwide Developer Conference,” Sellers writes. “However, I predict we’ll see such a revolutionary monitor by year’s end.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Let’s hope Sellers is right!
Apple should strive to make the best trucks and truck parts in the world.
Hey, 5K would be nice, but how about an 8K Apple display?
SEE ALSO:
Apple discontinues Thunderbolt Display – June 24, 2016
How would Apple drive a 5K Thunderbolt display? – June 1, 2016
Whither Apple’s 27-inch Retina 5K Thunderbolt Display? – December 8, 2014
AnandTech reviews Apple Thunderbolt Display: A must-have for MacBook Air owners – September 23, 2011
How about a nano-blade (A10 chip set?), many of which can slide into the new Mac Pro supercomputer?
Give the science geeks and techies what they have been clamoring for. It can’t be that hard. You have all the pieces. If you need help or feel insecure about moving in this direction, call me and I will fly out and draw it all out on a white board for you and then explain why it is essential to keep all of us dorkazoids happy.
THINK WEIRD! (That wil be the marketing slogan. lol)
osx on the mainframe is DOA. everyone has moved on. just start using Ubuntu and CentOS like the big boys do.. OSX on the backend makes no sense when OSX is perfectly capable of being managed by and taking advantage of a linux server backend.
And that new 5K display will not cost $1K.
And their SSD prices need to be chopped in half.
If this rumour of merging GPU with display is true, then this display will cost like $5000 or something, because it would require couple of built-in NVidia 1080 adapters to run 14 million pixels.
However, if this rumour is true at all, the GPU will be just for 2D graphics (3D graphics will be very slow). Then the new display will cost sane money.
They’re not replacing this monitor.
If Apple had a replacement for the aged Cinema Display then Apple would have announced if after killing Cinema Display. I am not surprised that Apple discontinued Cinema Display but I am disappointed and frustrated that Apple did not introduce a competitive product.
I’m afraid you may well be correct. What’s the point of killing something without offering an immediate replacement if you have plans to continue in that space?
I don’t think you’re right. A new display especially a 5K like in the iMac would probably use thunderbolt 3. Since none of apple’s machines have a thunderbolt 3 port on them yet, it stands to reason that they would wait until they did have that port. My guess is that they unveil it along with new macs in October sporting that connection. You can always adapt down, but not up. So a usb-c/thunderbolt 3 adapter for the older thunderbolt 2 connector would make sense for older machines that could drive such a display. And if they release it now, that tips their hand with new macs, and ruins the buying season for education.
Also remember that when they discontinued the 20 and 23″ cinema displays it was a couple of months before the 24″ came out, but they sold the 20&23 ” until they were gone, and only removed them from sale after the 24 launched. They did the same thing with the 30″ Cinema Display and the transition to the 27″ Cinema Display. The only time they kept the old one around was before the new Mac Pro launched and the 2012 Mac Pro couldn’t use the Thunderbolt Display because it didn’t have a thunder bolt port, while every other machine did. As soon as the Mac Pro had a 6 thunderbolt ports, they killed the 27″ Cinema Display and only had the Thunderbolt Display.
don’t know who is still buying the cinema display? some good choices at far less $$
http://www.derekunderwood.com/alternatives-to-the-apple-thunderbolt-display/
Not all monitors are created equal, especially with color gamut, and those who need color accuracy.
Thanks One Note Joe from Doofus, MO. Back on your meds please.
The next display will probably be 4-5 k but more importantly a USB-C Thunderbolt 3.
But, I expect they will announce it when they announce new MecBook Pros with USB-C and Thunderbolt 3.
apple displays are always overpriced.. and people drink the koolaid that they are better.. they use the SAME ips panels are their competitors, and jack the price up because of industrial design… the thunderbolt dock portion is the only selling point.. but even with that you could get an HP with the same Gamut/Colour and a 3rd party thunderbolt dock for less… it just doesn’t look as sexy… and that, in the end is all Apples hardware is about… sexiness. Not raw power, or capability…
Think big! Think 16k!
BTW, Tim Cook is doing just fine and anyone who thinks otherwise, just does not have all the facts that go into these big business decisions.
Apple is not doing just fine on the Mac front. Apple is coasting.
What new Mac products has Apple delivered since Cook took over? Degraded and artificially limited ones.
Let’s just concentrate on display capability to keep it pertinent to the subject of this forum.
From 2011-2013, Apple pushed Thunderbolt (v1), which cannot power a 4K or greater display at 60Hz refresh rate (which is about the minimum one would want to avoid choppy interface & bad performance on modern video). Apple’s Thunderbolt Display, with the same screen as the aged Cinema Display, has a max resolution of 2560×1440, so Apple figured it was good enough.
But as we know, Cook thinks everyone lives with iPads and laptops which all must be sealed non-upgradeable boxes, and thus the only Mac which can be upgraded with a new GPU is the the legacy cheese grater Mac Pro to take advantage of modern 4K+ resolution displays. Buy an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 GPU, which has three DisplayPort 1.2 connections, to upgrade a Mac Pro from 2006-2012. Good luck using a hackintosh method to upgrade the GPU from any other Mac since then.
2013, Apple finally got around to releasing a new Mac with actual new GPUs — the trashcan Mac Pro. The dual GPUs are officially non-upgradeable, but at least it offered Thunderbolt 2, which supports DisplayPort 1.2 and can drive three external 4K displays at 60 Hz refresh rate (dual thunderbolt cables per display, using all the ports on the back of the cylinder). But Apple didn’t release a display to go with it. Mac Pros have to buy 3rd party displays. Apple provides poor guidance of how daisy chaining from a MacBook degrades the Thunderbolt, and OS X is flaky when handling multiple displays, especially ones of different resolution. It doesn’t “just work”.
2013-2016, the competition keeps improving, Apple does nothing. Intel announced Skylake, which other companies immediately adopt. Apple eventually releases one new Mac in 2015: an ultraportable non-upgradeable sealed netbook that throttles the CPU the second a user tries to do any intensive task. The one port is USB-C which of course does not mate with the Apple ThunderBolt display and Apple isn’t kind enough to toss in a free adapter for buyers. If you choose to buy the insanely overpriced Apple adapter, you can drive one 4K display at a clunky refresh rate of only 24 Hz. Fine for cartoons, but that’s about it.
On deck for immediate implementation is Thunderbolt 3 (announced by Intel in 2015), native support for DisplayPort 1.3, and if Apple chooses to retire the many legacy video and data-specific connectors, perhaps Apple will also implement the USB-C connector as the one choice for future display duty. Maybe, but it’s all speculation because Apple won’t tell us.
Competitor computers however didn’t wait for Intel, they offered a full range of display connectors including DisplayPort and now HDMI 2.0 (based on DVI), which is inferior to DisplayPort 1.3 in many ways but can also drive a 5K display at 60Hz refresh rate.
To date, Apple still does not have a single HDMI 2.0 product on the market — Apple only supports up to HDMI 1.4, which struggles to run one UHD display at a 30 Hz refresh rate. Apple TV appears set to solder on while new media and large living room displays are all rapidly going to UHD or 4K.
Going shopping for a new monitor for your desktop? The Dell UP2715 display has 5K resolution, dual DisplayPort 1.2 ports, and includes adapters for MiniDisplayPort-to-DisplayPort in the box. $US 1650.
What about the 5K iMac? That was actually very exciting for those who aren’t already invested in a Mac Pro. But let’s say you want dual displays. Order the iMac model with AMD Radeon R9 M395X GPU and you will be able to add a 3rd party 5K display using dual Thunderbolt connections. Apple doesn’t offer a matching display, no one knows why not.
The holes in Apple’s Mac lineup are huge. Apple has no excuse not to get up to speed and offer compatible and complete product lineups. Under Cook, they have been behind everyone else.