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Apple might put a GPU right inside the Thunderbolt Display

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A Thunderbolt Display will run you a cool grand, but Apple hasn’t updated the external monitor/laptop dock in about five years. If you’re in the market for a second screen, you might want to hold off, because rumor has it that the Thunderbolt Display is getting a huge upgrade this year—and we just might see it at the Worldwide Developers Conference this month. [<strong>UPDATE:</strong> Rene Ritchie at iMore (http://www.imore.com/no-apple-display-integrated-gpu-wwdc) talked to some people who denied this would happen at WWDC. But that doesn't necessarily mean Apple won't make this sometime in the next year or two.]</p><p>
WWDC isn’t typically a hardware-palooza, but 9to5Mac is reporting (http://9to5mac.com/2016/06/01/apple-readying-new-external-5k-display-as-current-model-goes-out-of-stock-may-feature-integrated-gpu/) that the refreshed display might take the stage for one big reason: a GPU baked right inside. Why on earth would Apple do that? Well, the display is rumored to be 5K with a 5120x2880 resolution. The MacBooks you connect to a 5K display likely won’t have the graphics processing power to take advantage of that insanely high resolution. The (rumored) solution: integrating the GPU inside the display.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3078347/hardware/apple-might-put-a-gpu-right-inside-the-thunderbolt-display.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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