I told you in the morning that Thunderbolt displays sold by the Apple company began to disappear from the stocks of stores in the USA and other areas of the planet, this suggests the fact that there is an update of this series of products 5 years away from the previous one.
According to sources close to Apple, the new Thunderbolt 5K display is going to offer a resolution of 5120 × 2880 pixels, similar to that of the iMac 5K screen, but the Apple company also has a surprise in store, it is going to integrate a video card in this new screen.
Now if you're wondering why Apple would release a Thunderbolt 5K screen with a built-in video card, well the motivation is based on the idea of providing future compatibility with as many Macs as possible that those from Cupertino intend to release on the market in the following years.
Considering that MacBook and MacBook Air do not have graphics cards powerful enough to support a 5K resolution of a monitor, and some models of MacBook Pro are in the same situation, integrating a graphics card into a Thunderbolt 5K screen was the simplest solution to provide compatibility with all Macs.
... the new 'Thunderbolt Display' will likely feature a 5K resolution display of 5120×2880 pixels. Moreover, sources indicate that Apple will take the display in a surprising direction, specifically suggesting that Apple plans to integrate a dedicated external GPU into the display itself ...
The new OS X 10.12, or macOS 10.12, will have software capable of determining on the spot if, when connecting a Mac, the graphics card integrated in the Thunderbolt screen, or that of the Mac, should be used, so that everything will happen automatically to quickly display the images .
Although the Thunderbolt 5K screen is going to be similar or even identical to the screen in the iMac 5K, the design of the outer casing will be modified to allow the integration of a graphics card capable enough to support its resolution, so we are most likely talking about a thicker unit .
The new Thunderbolt 5K screen is to be announced by Apple in the framework WWDC 2016, it can be put on sale very shortly after that, or maybe only in the fall, in order to have the necessary compatibility that will only be available in a new OS X.
