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The Future of The Thunderbolt Display

One item I have been very intrigued by lately is the Apple Thunderbolt Display. Why? It’s a strange item that is so niche I wonder how it exists. However, I believe it to be a compelling product. Not only is it a gorgeous 27″ IPS display with excellent color accuracy, it also packs a number of hardware controllers.

The ultimate docking station.

With just one cable, connect any Thunderbolt-enabled Mac and get 27 inches of high-resolution screen space, high-quality audio, a FaceTime HD camera, FireWire 800 and Gigabit Ethernet ports — and a Thunderbolt port you can use to daisy-chain additional high-performance peripherals such as hard drives and video capture devices.

With the recent updates to the iMac, I can’t help but crave an update to the Thunderbolt display.

Not too often do you see a dock combined with a display. It’s a neat concept that really makes sense, and arguably the most elegant solution for laptop docking. The thin-and-light to-go machine and large home dock-in-a-display that simply extends your experience.

Let’s see an update for the Apple Thunderbolt Display with:

I also wonder if we will see more integration with iDevices, like being able to hook up an iPad to a Thunderbolt Display would be quite interesting. Plus, following with the hardware-in-a-display model, we could see more benefits of pairing the Thunderbolt display with an iPad.

Posted on November 15th, 2012