![]() You can even daisy chain two of these Thunderbolt Displays to a single port (except on MacBook Airs) for a mindboggling number of pixels. And the fact that there's a Thunderbolt port on the display, coupled with its daisy chain capability, means you can add one or more Thunderbolt peripherals to the chain (though these are currently scarce). What's more, the Thunderbolt cable splits: one end is an up-to-85W MagSafe connector so you can charge your laptop at the same time. (The presence of FireWire and Ethernet is especially important for MacBook Air owners, whose notebooks lack these ports.) The display itself has a FaceTime HD camera, mic, surprisingly capable speakers, three USB ports, one FireWire 800 port, a Gigabit Ethernet port and a Thunderbolt port on the back. The reason there's so much circuitry inside the Thunderbolt Display's case, you see, is that it connects a whole host of functions to your Mac with just a single cable. ![]() ![]() While this means that you have to have a Thunderbolt-equipped Mac in order to use this, it brings some terrific benefits. The clue to the Thunderbolt Display's uniqueness, however, is in its name it connects not with VGA, DVI, HDMI or even Mini DisplayPort, but using the new Thunderbolt connector. ![]()
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