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Thunderbolt Displays Shipping to Customers

Thursday September 15, 2011 6:11 am PDT by Arnold Kim

We've received multiple contacts that individuals have started receiving ship notices for their Thunderbolt Displays this morning. Scott from New Zealand offers up the above ship notice and expects delivery by tomorrow morning.

Forum readers have been organizing in this forum thread while waiting for deliveries. We'd previously reported that Apple had begun shipping demo units to stores last week. Apple has also been releasing various software updates to prepare for the display.

Apple yesterday pushed out a 60.30 MB Thunderbolt Software Update to provide support for the display.

This update provides support for the Apple Thunderbolt Display and bug fixes for Thunderbolt device compatibility.

This company this week has also been pushing out firmware updates for its latest Mac models, addressing compatibility with the new display as well as issues with Thunderbolt Target Disk Mode and Lion Recovery over the Internet.
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vettori
23 weeks ago
My order was set to ship today but I received a delay notice. Should ship on 21th.
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dlimes13
23 weeks ago
Come on MacMall, ship!!!!
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Colin L
23 weeks ago
Yup, mine confirmed as shipped, and to be delivered before 22nd Sept (est.) I'm in Malaysia so it takes about 5 days shipping from China.

Looking forward to it
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FrizzleFryBen
23 weeks ago
My two are still in processing :( I'm on the edge of my seat! Ordered 1 month ago.
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threeonezero
23 weeks ago
two on the way! i wonder when the stores will have them in stock.
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RoelJuun
23 weeks ago
I guess Apple made the display-cable short because now you can chain the second display in the first using TB… Always thinking ahead at Cupertino ;)
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gri
23 weeks ago
Anybody knows if these have a dedicated GPU on board? That might be an interesting way to go as mentioned here (http://www.cringely.com/2011/08/is-the-mac-pro-dead/)
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Battlefield Fan
23 weeks ago
still stuck at 10/1. Apple must only be making 10 a day.
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Erickt
23 weeks ago
My delivery date moved from 23 Sept to 28 Sept.... no explanation. I'm unhappy,but patient.
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repoman27
23 weeks ago

Anybody knows if these have a dedicated GPU on board? That might be an interesting way to go as mentioned here (http://www.cringely.com/2011/08/is-the-mac-pro-dead/)


They do not.

It would be interesting, but only if you bought a Sandy Bridge MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, or quad-core Mac mini (base model price range $999-$1599) that lack the option for a dGPU, and then decided that you wanted better than iGPU performance when connected to an external display that as it stands costs $999. For everyone else, it would make the display considerably more expensive, complex, hot, and power hungry. 10 Gbps is also slightly anemic for the PCIe traffic to and fro a modern GPU, especially since this display has many other features which also require PCIe bandwidth.
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