Along with the new Mac minis and MacBook Airs, Apple is also updating their 27-inch LED Cinema Display. But now they are calling it just the Thunderbolt Display.
It’s not so much different than the previous LED CInema Display, with the main upgrade being the fact that the new monitor can be daisy-chained across multiple Thunderbolt devices, but that’s a big upgrade in and of itself: it turns the Cinema Display into a hub.
Other specs include a built-in FaceTime HD camera, 2.1 speaker sound, a FireWire 800 port, one Gigabit Ethernet port and a second Thunderbolt port for the aforementioned Daisy Chaining. An integrated MagSafe cable will also allow you to power connected notebooks.
The only catch? The new Thunderbolt Display isn’t available yet. Instead, it’ll cost $999 and be available sometime in the next 60 days.
You can read more about the Thunderbolt Display here.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
4 responses to “Apple Pre-Announces 27-Inch Thunderbolt Display”
Pricy but it becomes your docking station. Easy to connect and charge your Macbook and then go when you need to.
Preannounced? Â PRE-announced? How the holy heck do you “pre” announce something. Â The word is ANNOUNCED. Â As in Apple ANNOUNCED a new 27-inch Thunderbolt display. Â That just sounds ignorant (because it is).