
The whole concept behind the Thunderbolt Display - a device that is basically a one-cable connector dock that turns your laptop into a desktop - reminds me a lot of Tim Van Damme’s pre-iPad concept of a dockable tablet.Īnd so now I’m wondering if one day we’ll see some sort of Thunderbolt connection for our iPad and/or iPhone that would turn our iDevices into full-fledged laptops or desktops. A fully connected large screen desktop, and a ultraportable laptop. The Thunderbolt Display lets you have the best of both worlds.

With a MacBook Air and a Thunderbolt Display I could have had the lightest Mac ever made, with all of the ports I need, and zero compromises. I compromised and got the Pro because it was the lightest laptop available with all of the ports my job required.


If I sat down with Apple’s Thunderbolt Display earlier I would have never bought a 13 inch MacBook Pro instead of a MacBook Air. Thomas Brand on Apple’s Thunderbolt Display:
