On Tuesday Apple refreshed its iMac product line with new 21.5-inch and 27-inch models, adding quad-core i5 processors and faster graphics across the board, and introducing Thunderbolt, the new Apple and Intel-branded high-speed I/O interface. Some Loop readers have asked us if the new iMacs support Target Display Mode, a feature of the previous-generation 27-inch iMac model that enabled you to use it as an external display for another computer. Macworld’s Dan Moren picks up the story:
“Apple has confirmed to Macworld that the new iMacs can be used as external displays via their Thunderbolt ports. However, to do so, you’ll need a Thunderbolt-equipped Mac, such as one of the early 2011 models of MacBook Pros.”
In other words, older Macs – even those with Mini Displayport interfaces, which look like Thunderbolt ports – won’t work. This is bound to create a bit of confusion in the marketplace.
New iMacs support Target Display Mode via Thunderbolt [Macworld]
This must be lazyness from Apple. I guess it can be fixed with a software update for the new iMacs – if Apple will.
Hey everyone that bought a Core i5 or Core i7 MBP in the year before the Thunderbolt MBPs were announced: F- YOU.
Truly up yours,
Apple
Yes, Apple is harshing ALL of those people who just HAVE to buy one of the new iMacs AND have a previous-generation Mac that they HAVE to connect to there new iMac as a Monitor. All 14 of them.
Non-issue. Move along.
Sorry. …their new iMac…
Why, have they stopped functioning?
Why do you guess that it’s a software update? It sounds like an architecture issue to me.