Editors' note: As a result of further testing, we have made changes to portions of the review, correcting previous findings about Windows compatibility. These changes also are reflected in the Features subrating and the overall score. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused. Make sure to update your Thunderbolt firmware with the recently released update and get the for the Thunderbolt Display as well.

Iteration is something Apple is good at. Its 24-inch Cinema Display was good, but it appealed to an extremely small minority of users. In 2010 Apple released a new version with an improved screen and by that time there were many more Mini DisplayPort-compatible Macs in the wild, thus widening its appeal. With its Thunderbolt Display, Apple adds a superfast connection, as well as some other functionality, but does the very nature of the monitor's Thunderbolt-based origin ultimately hold it back from pleasing more than just Mac users?

Design and features The Apple Thunderbolt Display shares the same basic design as the (non-Thunderbolt) Cinema Display released in 2010. Thankfully, the gorgeous 27-inch IPS screen with its 2,560x1,440-pixel resolution made the transition with no degradation in quality. Aesthetically, the chassis design is almost exactly the same as before, and along with the new features, virtually everything you got with the Cinema Display, you get in the Thunderbolt Display. Well, almost, but we'll get to that later. The monitor's chassis, including the back of the monitor and its foot stand, has the same smooth aluminum gray finish as the Cinema Display, and just as the Cinema Display did, it includes an ambient light sensor, a built-in camera and microphone, built-in 2.1 speakers, and three USB 2.0 ports located on the lower back left. The panel is 2.25 inches in full depth and about 25.6 inches wide. The bezel, flush with the screen, is 1.1 inches wide on the right and left sides, and the distance from the bottom of the bezel to the desktop is 3.6 inches.

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The foot stand is 7.4 inches wide and 8.2 inches deep, and the monitor hardly moved when we knocked it from the sides. This is in part thanks to the flatness and width of the foot stand, but also to the display's heavy 24-pound weight. The 'duckfoot' foot stand makes a return and, just as before, keeps the display from toppling too easily. So what are the differences? To start with, the Thunderbolt Display adds a Gigabit Ethernet port, a FireWire port, and, wait for it.a Thunderbolt connection.

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However (and this is the 'well, almost' referred to earlier), because there's currently no Thunderbolt support for PCs, the display will not work with them. But, thankfully, it will work with Macs running Windows through Boot Camp. Note that the Thunderbolt Display doesn't support hot-swapping to a Mac running Windows in Boot Camp. The computer must be restarted already connected to the display to work properly. Also, according to Apple there's no support for non-Thunderbolt-enabled Macs. Once we've gotten our hands on an older Mac, we'll confirm this. Apple adds FireWire, Thunderbolt, and Ethernet ports to the three USB 2.0 ports included on previous incarnations of the monitor.

As an interesting and welcome bonus for MacBook Air owners, plugging the display into an Ethernet connection allows the Air to take advantage of full wired Ethernet speeds as opposed to being limited to Wi-Fi. Thunderbolt performance: We copied a few megabytes of files over from the to a MacBook Air both from the Air's direct Thunderbolt connection and through the display, and noticed identically fast transfer speeds. Text: Black text on white looked clear, without any obvious color tint problems. Text was easily legible down to a font level of 8. Movies: We tested the Apple Thunderbolt Display using a number of 1080p movie trailers. As with previous incarnations of the display, we were impressed with the deep blacks the monitor achieved.

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