We’ve long been waiting for a replacement for the discontinued Apple Thunderbolt display. A monitor which, without approaching the quality (and the price) of the Pro Display XDR, allows us to take advantage of an external screen with the guarantees represented by the apple logo. A monitor which, if the latest rumors are true, is taking shape.
A monitor to replace the Thunderbolt Display
In his latest weekly newsletter, the first in 2022, Mark Gurman states that Apple is working on an external monitor that will cost “about half” the price of the Pro Display XDR screen. It will be a monitor which should therefore not be understood as the second version of the Pro Display.
Gurman states that “wait” for this new screen to arrive next year, without going into more detail on whether this is information from its sources or an assumption based on the data we have from this monitor. In any case, the Bloomberg reporter continues to give us more information on what the new version of the Thunderbolt Display would be.
Remember that, last month, Gurman had already told us about this new monitor. A small price, which we can use with an iMac, for example, or to extend the desktop of our MacBook Pro.
“A lower cost monitor, I think, would be a popular product for those looking to add a bigger screen to their new MacBook Pro without spending the equivalent of a luxury car down payment with the Pro Display XDR. At this point, the cost of building this monitor has probably gone down, and with some tweaking and maybe a slight dip in brightness, Apple could offer a monitor of similar quality (in a slightly smaller size) for maybe around. half the price “.
This information complements what we saw last December, in which Dylandkt told us how LG makes, or rather tests, certain displays that, it seems, Apple is developing. Of the three displays we’re talking about, it’s possible to think that some of them are for the so-called 27-inch iMac Pro, while the rest they might as well turn out to be the apple screen that many of us want to see on the market already.
The truth is, Apple’s adventure with screens has been, at least, peculiar. The old Apple Thunderbolt Display was a great option to be able to extend the desktop of our computers or to mount a computer next to a Mac mini using exclusively Apple hardware. Long after its shutdown, Apple came up with third-party alternatives and then introduced the Pro Display XDR, a monitor that, as we saw at the time, is aimed at an entirely different audience. Next, we’ll see how Apple plans to bring us a monitor that, to our knowledge, will be almost the quality of the Pro Display and half the price.
