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what up guys johnathan here with TLD and I got a setup and demonstration of the Apple Thunderbolt Display alongside the 2011 13-inch MacBook Air now the backside of this guy there's the power source which is detachable that's going to go into the wall there's actually a little breakout cable which extends into two ends so you have the Thunderbolt cable on one side and the MagSafe power source on the other so not only is it going to connect via Thunderbolt it's also going to power both the display and the MacBook off one power source so if we add up to about this Mac go to more info you will see that it is the MacBook Air hooked up to so MacBook Air 13-inch mid-2011 1.7 gigahertz Intel Core i5 so that's the machine except it tucked up to the Thunderbolt displays so if we exit that head over to System Preferences you'll see right here we actually have independent control I'll drag this over so you can see I'm also sharing screens over both displays so for this one the MacBook Air the resolution is 1440 by 900 we have independent brightness control and for the Thunderbolt Display 2560 by 1440 and again brightness control over this one now if we go to the arrangement how I have it set up right now this little white bar across the top that indicates what the primary display is so this is my main display so for example if I wanted to open up launchpad it's going to show up on this display now if I go back to this is set up to right-to-left Thunderbolts flight to MacBook Air this was on the other side I can switch it for example but since this is on the left I want this on the left-hand side that way if I drag screens over there it goes solid like that so all that was cool but on top of that this is going to act as a hub for the macbook air through the thunderbolt cable so I have a wireless slaughter tech keyboard wireless mouse that's going to one USB receiver on the back of the Thunderbolt Display not the MacBook Air then I have a G Drive external firewire 800 Drive which I don't even have an 800 port on my macbook air so that's going into the Thunderbolt Display and I can actually see it as you guys can see right here op the MacBook Air so I can transfer a copy it can just use it like it's plugged into my MacBook Air this is all going through the Thunderbolt Display just for an example is a setup have my iPhone hooked up to another USB there's also a USB thumb drive and on top of that there's an extra Thunderbolt cable as well as an Ethernet port so for example maybe you have a home set up you don't want a wireless connection you prefer wired you can have everything set up here including your hard drive your mouse your keyboard your phone you unplug the Thunderbolt cable the power source so it's charging it the whole time take it go off on your day do your thing come back plug in two cables and all this is as you left it so that is awesome and hopefully by now you guys start to see there's a little added value to this on top of the HD FaceTime camera that's included on this and to the monitor because I see a lot of you guys saying why could go buy a 40 inch 1080p TV for five six hundred bucks why the hell would I want to buy this well if you try working on a 42 inch 1080p TV it's going to look terrible it's going to be stretched and it's just not good so for an example as far as screen real estate I have two of these examples set up so I'm gonna go and open this up as far as 720p right here keep in mind this is a rectangle at 720p not that's on top not this to the left so it's going to drag this to the left that is 720p so this is like having to 720p monitors in one so you're gonna get extra screen real estate you're going to get more done now as far as 1080p go over here and keep in mind I already have this set up to show off the side so this whole rectangle right here is 1080p so this is extra all this right here is extra and this on the bottom is extra so this is an IPS display I don't care if you're looking at this or the dell if you want to call it the pc equivalent anything like this type of display with this resolution with that technology is going to cost about eight to a thousand bucks but for me the integration with the MacBook Air you guys see it gets HD FaceTime camera the hub how you can set everything up unplug basically two cables is kind of charge your MacBook go off do your thing come back and it's going to be exactly as you left it you guys can see it all works seamlessly I got full screen Safari going switch between tabs will scroll this is all coming off the MacBook Air so it works freaking amazing so hopefully this helped a lot of you guys I'm not going to recommend it to everybody because it's not for everybody if you want to buy TV if you watch TV all the time that's going to be a better buy for you I personally work on my computer way more than I watch TV so for me something like this it's an investment to my work it's going to pay off in a long run so hopefully you guys enjoyed 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