Apple Cinema Display page undergoing maintenance, suggests refresh imminent (Update: No)

After images of a new Apple Cinema Display leaked earlier, we're now seeing that the Apple Store page for the product is undergoing some kind of maintenance. Instead of the normal product shot on the Displays and Graphics page, there's a picture of a cardboard box with a shipping label attached, and navigating to the product page results in an error.

This could mean Apple is simply doing some behind-the-scenes work to purge the leaked images, but it could also mean the page is being refreshed in advance of the launch of a new Cinema Display.

The new Apple Cinema Display is expected to replace the old Mini DisplayPort connector with a Thunderbolt connection for use with the newest Macs. If the display does indeed get updated tonight, we'll update this page with the new specs.

Update: The Cinema Display has returned to the Apple Store, but a glance at the specs shows it to be the same product as before, complete with Mini DisplayPort cables instead of Thunderbolt.

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Will

I've been dying to ask this for a while. How do you guys seems to know whenever a page at Apple.com is down for maintenance? Is this a q for Aunt TUAW?

July 16 2011 at 6:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Vera Comment

anyone know if thunderbolt can also carry firewire and usb signal? assuming they keep the extra ports on the back it'd be nice to not have the FW and USB pigtails to deal with (not to mention losing the ports on the back of the machine)... that's how it works on mine (last gen 30")

July 16 2011 at 1:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Rodger Combs

Thunderbolt can't do USB natively, but as it's PCIe behind-the-scenes, a hardware developer could breakout the Thunderbolt into HDMI, FireWire, USB... basically, anything you can do with PCIe.

July 16 2011 at 10:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John Rodeman

I sure hope they did their homework and adjust the height of the monitor the 1 inch or so it needs to match the heigh of the 27" iMac. I've been waiting for the update as I need a second monitor on my 27" IMac but it's crazy these two moitors are not built out of the same height dimension.

July 16 2011 at 1:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brent Schmidt

I've been looking to buy a new display for use with my MacBook Pro while editing images when I go to Korea next month (somehow 13" just doesn't cut it, lol)_ may just get this. Would compliment our new 21" iMac...

July 16 2011 at 12:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply