Apple is discontinuing the only monitor it makes, the Thunderbolt Display

[Oliver Peters]

No market for them except with nMP customers. Even if there are plenty of nMP sales, that’s still not enough to warrant a separate production run of displays. Just pass that off to LG.

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[Darren Roark]

[Oliver Peters] “Even if there are plenty of nMP sales, that’s still not enough to warrant a separate production run of displays. Just pass that off to LG.”

The other possibility is that since they are making 5K iMacs with a special interface device to connect to the logic board, to bring an external display to market with the same screen they need thunderbolt 3 to drive a 5K monitor.

If they do come out with a new display, the holdup was probably Thunderbolt 3.

Since there aren’t any macs available at this time that can run a 5K external display, that might mean something is coming.

[Andrew Kimery]

Apple was still selling monitors?

[Darren Roark]

[Andrew Kimery] “Apple was still selling monitors?”

Ha!

Yes, really really old ones.

[Andrew Kimery]

I want to agree that Apple is probably making the way for a 5K monitor, but if that’s the case while kill the ThB one now and point people towards LG as opposed to rolling out a 5K monitor as part of a across the board hardware refresh w/ThB 3?

[Darren Roark]

[Andrew Kimery] “while kill the ThB one now and point people towards LG as opposed to rolling out a 5K monitor as part of a across the board hardware refresh w/ThB 3?”

Selling a display that isn’t a direct 1:1 match to their best iMacs is possibly why.

The other thing is the LG panel that display uses may not be available anymore. The Monoprice display that used them was also discontinued months ago.

The 5K iMac was a stopgap product anyway seeing how they had to invent a proprietary hardware device to get the 5K feed from the GPU because the display protocol wasn’t ready yet.

[Andrew Kimery]

[Darren Roark] “The other thing is the LG panel that display uses may not be available anymore. The Monoprice display that used them was also discontinued months ago.
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Ah, supply issue would make sense of the odd timing.

[Mark Raudonis]

Am I the only one who actually liked them? A t-bolt monitor paired with an iMac makes a wonderful
dual monitor edit station. We have a ton of them.

Of course they never actually lined up perfectly. You had to raise one about a half inch to get a clean horizontal alignment.

Oh well. The minute you buy something from Apple it’s already EOL.

[Charlie Austin]

[Mark Raudonis] “Oh well. The minute you buy something from Apple it’s already EOL.”

The minute you buy anything from anybody it’s Obsolete/EOL. You really think they won’t replace it with… something?

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[Oliver Peters]

[Darren Roark] “Since there aren’t any macs available at this time that can run a 5K external display, that might mean something is coming.”

I doubt it. The wording of their response doesn’t lead one to think that’s likely. Besides, the market for a second 5K display on an iMac is infinitesimal in Apple terms.

Oliver

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Orlando, FL
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