Ondrej Holzman It has been expected for a long time, and today Apple actually announced that it will stop selling its Thunderbolt Display, which it introduced in 2011. However, those who expected that the Californian company would smoothly replace it with a new monitor with 4K or 5K were wrong. Apple doesn't have a replacement yet.
"We are discontinuing sales of the Apple Thunderbolt Display," the company said in a press statement, adding that it will be available online and in brick-and-mortar stores while supplies last. "There are many great options for Mac users from other manufacturers," added Apple, which will not yet release a new external monitor.
The 27-inch Thunderbolt Display, introduced five years ago, was a suitable addition to MacBooks or Mac minis when it offered both desktop expansion and laptop charging via a single cable. But after a while, Apple resented it and stopped updating it.
Therefore, even today, the Thunderbolt Display has a resolution of only 2560 by 1440 pixels, so if you connect it to, for example, the latest iMacs with 4K or 5K, the experience is very poor. In addition, even Thunderbolt Display does not have the latest peripherals, so for a few years those interested in a large external monitor have been looking elsewhere - as Apple itself is now advising.
Many have already hoped several times in recent years that Apple would present a new version of its display, which would match iMacs with 4K or 5K resolution, but this has not yet happened. So far, it is only speculated what technology would be used to connect the new display with such a high resolution and what obstacles Apple has to overcome. For example, the internal GPU is discussed.
"Twenty-seven-year-old Thunderbolt Display already introduced five years ago..." :D that's getting old pretty fast, 27 years in 5 years :D
Was he already 27 years old at the time of the performance?
The next step in their journey to become the only mobile manufacturer for BFU.
So for me it will be a big disappointment if there is no replacement in the fall. As skeptical as I was of Apple's direction, this is a big departure. Although others may see it as pettiness.
In my opinion, if they were to prepare a replacement, the old one will last until then, it is already several years out of date anyway.
I rather think that they will also cut the Mac pro and Mac mini, then the iMac, and only the macbook will remain, and they will concentrate on phones and watch bands.
I also have the feeling that they are gradually getting rid of the professional users on whom Apple's user base has grown. Another indicator might be that the last MacBook Pro change was 400 days ago, while the historical average was 268 days. There is no new keyboard with a numeric part without which a professional cannot work properly, no significant innovation of the mouse, Mac Mini worse than it was and so on…. I have several friends (and I too) who need to renew their equipment and we haven't had anything to buy for a long time, because no one wants to invest in outdated iron, because we keep waiting to see if it's already. 90% of my friends who have a MacBook Pro have had their motherboard replaced, and some have a peeling and scratched display. The first thing that struck me was the cancellation of Aperture support, and since then I've just been shaking my head. Tribute to the masses earns more, but I don't think it's worth the diversion. I would easily go elsewhere, but it's also about the operating system and it really doesn't want me to change. Well, that's how I wrote it :)
And don't you think they are waiting for MBP and the new Thunderbolt technology to be able to chain 4K+ Displays? I still hope in the back of my mind. Aperture also froze me, I was about to switch to it from the then iPhot, and lo and behold they ditched it. I still miss a lot of features from the iPhoto. ?
Well, the stupid thing is that I just bought an aperture and they completely screwed it up, Photos is a completely inadequate replacement that doesn't go anywhere except for hipster rants.
Well, I still use Aperture today, but I will soon switch to Lightroom, I haven't found a better substitute. You are right, history repeats itself. It's exactly like that, I've been thinking this in subtle hints for about two to three years now. This made me wonder if anyone in Apple management is still working on a professional machine. Everyone is probably running around with a cell phone and tablet (plus a watch as a must) after meetings. Being a journalist and doing an interview, I'll ask right away. Mr. Cook is somehow desperate to put energy into his clockwork child. By the way, this is what I thought of when I saw the documentary about Jobs, that the shape of the watch that Jobs liked was chosen in terms of design. I had to make a Printscreen immediately :)
history repeats :-)
So maybe Apple hasn't completely damned displays. ? ?
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/24/thunderbolt-display-integrated-gpu/
please, it was sunt and very expensive.
Not that I want to buy it, but I've been looking forward to it since 2013 and I only got a price increase from 25k to 31? And then it hit me, … do you want/need a better display directly from Apple? Buy an iMac 5k and plug in as an ext. monitor, Apple already supports it for some time (yes, the price is ridiculous), but that's 3k for a wireless keyboard too, isn't it?
Also, I enjoy 5k on iMac + Cinema Display as a secondary, being a macbook pro user, etc. so I'm crying...
I have the feeling that apple is increasingly coughing on desktops.. Unlit keyboards, sloppy mouse, no redesign for at least 5 years, unupdated mac pro, separate mac mini chapter, choice of disks with impossibility of ssd configuration via satu and constant use of 5400 rpm disks....
It is a fact that the enthusiasm for the launch of the 5k iMac and the revolutionary design of the Mac Pro is slowly waning and there is nothing here... Perhaps only force touch on the new, even more expensive touchpad... The new keyboard is not backlit???? :(((
I mean external wireless not the one on macbooks. In addition, a version with a numerical version is missing..:/
The wireless keyboard was never backlit, I own the previous generation and have seen the previous one as well, it would probably drain very quickly. Otherwise, she also never had a number pad, but that can be purchased. :) I got used to living without him. :)
http://www.nsparkle.cz/newertech-keypad/
I understood the lack of backlighting for keyboards with classic batteries, but if this keyboard has an integrated battery, I don't understand it. There are a lot of wireless backlit keyboards on the market and it cannot be said that they discharge very quickly :). Otherwise, Apple made a wireless keyboard with a number pad. Although not the previous generation that had a wire, but the generation before a keyboard without a numeric pad was available.
Apple hates computers in general, the only thing they are interested in are iPhones, watches and, so far, iPads. They maintain Macbooks and Mac mini/pro only out of inertia and cancel what was interesting for professional users (e.g. the mac mini server ended, they never made a proper display for the mac pro, removing ports from the macbook, OS X targeting home users…..)
Truth. Hardware is more and more focused on basic users, and a machine that can be used for more demanding tasks costs astronomical sums. Apple's approach can also be seen in OSX or already in macOS. Many menus, such as the plug-ins message in Safari, etc., have not been redesigned for many years and are currently an eyesore. I'm not even talking about the non-existence of some programs for Mac that Apple develops for iOS, a separate chapter is the cutting of professional software or the level of the Mac App Store or iTunes. Personally, every year I hope that the next version of the system will again be "back to mac" when apple will bring the missing programs and redesign and fine-tune the existing unfinished business. Unfortunately, that seems less and less likely every year.
Above all, Apple currently does not support classic 4 and 5K monitors (except for mac pro and some imacy), so it cannot produce such displays :-) The problem is not in the interface (thunderbolt), but in the graphics performance, it will not pull the native resolution... I don't know why they decided to give cropped graphics with little memory for most products... and it still overheats :-( I guess Jobs' bullying is missing :-D