On Feb 12, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Levi Pearson wrote:
>
> I thought that Thunderbolt *was* basically a docking station port. It
> gives access to the PCIE bus, so it could clearly support a docking
Indeed. Now that I read up on that, it seems that this is the case. Apple
expects you to get a Thunderbolt monitor, and that monitor provides a special
Thunderbolt cable that has a Magsafe power connector to power your laptop too.
Then you would hang other peripherals (up to 5?) off your Thunderbotl monitor.
So I guess this is Apple's picture of this world:
A/C Power Cable <---> Monitor <---> Thunderbolt/Power Cable <---> MacBook
And then of course your Thunderbolt monitor also provides USB ports for
non-thunderbolt stuff like mouse/keyboard and HDs.
Pretty cool if you can stomach the $1,000 price tag on the 27" monitor (and I
want two of them).
I haven't asked my company to buy me one (or two!), but I bet they would if I
asked. :)
--Dave
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