Mini Display to Mini Display cable

Hello. I have a 27inch mid 2010 iMac and I'm soon to buy the new 27inch 2012 iMac.
Is there a reason the apple store does not carry a mini displayport to mini displayport (male to male) cable to connect the older iMac as a 2nd monitor? Has Apple deemed this as not a good idea for a reason I can not understand yet?
Please help. Thank you.

Now Apple only sells Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt cables, but not Mini DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort cables, so Thunderbolt could be the reason. You can buy a third-party cable to connect both Macs > http://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F2CD008
To use the Mid 2010 iMac as a monitor > http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11302

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