On 2016-04-26 3:27 , Larry Colen wrote:
I mentioned that used mac pro I got a great deal on, it turns out that my thunderbolt display does not work with it. I suspect that backward compatibility is against the macintologist religion or something.
Thunderbolt at the video source is directly backward compatible with DisplayPort, and via trivial adapters with HDMI and DVI
the Thunderbolt Display, as the receiver of the video signal, only works with Thunderbolt Macs, and was primarily intended as a "dock" for Thunderbolt laptops, since it also has two-way audio & video, USB, FireWire and Ethernet and power …
Apple has moved on to 5K Retina displays on the iMacs, but there's so far no corresponding 5K external display, probably because there are lots of gotchas about transmitting the signal; the only way Macs can drive a 5K display at present is if they have Thunderbolt 2 and use a pair of Thunderbolt or DisplayPort cables; the exception would be Mac Pros with a third party video card supporting HDMI 2.0
this is a pretty thorough guide to what Macs can use what displays, though it does not get into the color space issue at all:
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