Haswell MacBook Pro, Boot Camp and Cinema Display

You are exactly right. Apple needs to fix this but they refuse to help. Apple Care says to call microsoft and they cant help. A $3000 computer should be able to run windows. They better fix this.

Same exact problem here with MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9), Boot Camp, Windows 7 64 Ent. With usb hub cable plugged in I am unable to get past the grey screen. If I select Mac OS from the boot options menu it will startup Mac OS fine with usb plugged in. So, this is only with dual boot problem and booting into Windows. Looks like it has been over a month since reported and still no fix?

Windows 8.1 was working fine on my MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9), Nvidia Geforce 750M.

Then i connected my Cinema Display and from then on i only get a black screen on my laptop.

I always need to connect my Cinema Display.. Try to reinstalled Nvidia drivers, rebooting many times,.. But is stuck in this mode. It works fine in MacOSX.

Any suggestions? thanks.

I'm having the exact same problem. New 13" Macbook Pro Retina with 24" Cinema display. Cannot boot past the gray screen.

The only suggestion I have is unplug the USB cable and use a external USB hub instead. You can keep the thunderbolt plugged in because the issue is only with the Cinema USB hub/cable.

That's a great suggestion. Until Apple comes out with a fix, I ordered on eBay a white $3 4-port usb hub with an on/off switch. That way I can leave everything plugged in and simply turn off the switch during reboot and back on once the Windows screen shows. I tried this with a older hub that I have and the process works.

Did anyone find a different solution to this? I'm running into the same issue - USB devices plugged straight in work fine, but bootcamp gets stuck on the white screen (well, it's gray now with mavericks) if they're plugged in through an USB hub - and I tried three different hubs, both powered and unpowered...

It's difficult to describe my frustration with Apple over issues like this. I just spent a lot of money and time setting up a MBPr 13 with a Thunderbolt Display and LED Cinema Display side by side in portrait mode.

The reason I set up this way is that dual Thunderbolt Displays won't work with Bootcamp. Now, discovering that I'm going to have to pull the USB cable from my laptop every time I want to boot, I am extremely disappointed. This is not a difficult fix. In fact, it's rather rudimentary to enable basice USB hub functionality at boot.

Apple is lucky that no on else makes aesthetically pleasing hardware yet. I work from home and have to use Windows for work, so there is no way that crippling Windows will win me over to OSX. I would be only too happy to walk away from Apple altogether when feeling slapped in the face with stuff like this. If Samsung's comparable monitor were VESA compliant and a Series 9 could support a dual monitor setup, I would swap this out in a heartbeat to avoid issues like this where Apple doesn't want to play nice with Microsoft.

Apple: please grow up and have enough self confidence that you can create a wonderful user experience outside of the little sandbox that is OSX. I can't use your OS, but I'm still willing to pay top dollar for your beautiful hardware because it's supposed to support Windows. Do you want my money or not? You've caused a customer willing to spend thousands to begin looking for alternatives. There are others like me. Please listen and don't take it as disrespect, but as an opportunity to improve and win us over.

End rant.