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Mac Mini (Mid 2011), MacBook Air (Mid 2011) and Thunderbolt Display

Apple announced three products on 20 July 2011: Mac Mini (Mid 2011), MacBook Air (Mid 2011) and Thunderbolt Display. The day spanned Displays and Mac.

It was the 6th of 8 dated moments the archive holds for 2011, 29 days after the previous one, 21 June 2011.

Mac Mini (Mid 2011) product photograph

LoMit · CC0

What Apple announced

Mac Mini (Mid 2011)

Mac · Mac Mini · discontinued 23 October 2012

The archive holds no written summary for this product. Its photographs, family, and dates are on its product page.

MacBook Air (Mid 2011)

Mac · MacBook Air · discontinued 11 June 2012

The archive holds no written summary for this product. Its photographs, family, and dates are on its product page.

Thunderbolt Display

Displays · Displays · discontinued 23 June 2016

The Apple Thunderbolt Display is a 27-inch flat panel computer monitor developed by Apple Inc. and sold from July 2011 to June 2016. Originally priced at $999, it replaced Apple’s 27-inch Cinema Display. It integrates a 720p webcam, speakers and a microphone, as well as Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire 800, a downstream Thunderbolt port and three USB 2.0 ports.

The Thunderbolt Display was discontinued in June 2016, and replaced by LG UltraFine displays Apple developed with LG on the consumer end, while the Pro Display XDR succeeded it in 2019 as Apple's professional display. In 2022, the Apple Studio Display was released as the first Apple-branded consumer display since its discontinuation.

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Mac Mini (Mid 2011) product photograph
Mac Mini (Mid 2011)

LoMit · CC0

MacBook Air (Mid 2011) product photograph
MacBook Air (Mid 2011)

Matthew Yohe · CC BY 3.0

Thunderbolt Display product photograph
Thunderbolt Display

andrew-gw · CC BY-SA 3.0

Also in 2011

Sources

  1. Mac Mini (Mid 2011) · Wikipedia
  2. MacBook Air (Mid 2011) · Wikipedia
  3. Thunderbolt Display · Wikipedia

Dates on this page are announcement dates, not shipping dates. Product summaries are drawn from the linked articles, and specification claims in them are the publisher’s, not independent testing. Photograph credits and licences are listed in full on the image credits page.