

The anomaly here is the $350 price tag of the Intel NUC, and the fact that nearly all affordable Thunderbolt accessories come with one not two Thunderbolt ports. I can only surmise that they did so on visual identification alone, based on a familiarity with current Apple devices. If one instead googles D54250WYK Thunderbolt, one gets an amazing number of hits from reliable sources (leading review sites) describing this port as a Thunderbolt port. The port is described as a Mini DisplayPort. If one reads Intel's PDF manual for the D54250WYK, it makes no mention of Thunderbolt. It was released in its finished state on February 24, 2011.

It uses the same connector as Mini DisplayPort (MDP).

Thunderbolt, developed under the name Light Peak, (interface)# cite_note-inteltbhome-1 is a (computing)# Hardware_interfaces hardware interfacethat allows the connection of external peripherals to a computer. (interface) Thunderbolt (interface) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (At first, the exact same port just supported DisplayPort even on Apple hardware.) Thunderbolt is an additional layer on the same wiring, which Apple now implements on its hardware. That's a Mini DisplayPort, not a Thunderbolt port. I bought the Nuc model with the thunderbolt port exactly for this reason to avoid buying another monitor.
