Having one thunderbolt port on my iMac, I will automatically pass on anything that cannot be daisy chained, as I need the terminating device to be a display port to HDMI adapter.
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CES 2012: AR Drone 2.0, OCZ External Thunderbolt SSD
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that drone and the SSD seem very nice. nothing i just have to have, but very nice either way. especially that drone. i guess next year will be 1080P video?
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Your neighbour would need to be deaf and blind for that it be effective.
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Your neighbour would need to be deaf and blind for that it be effective.
Just slap a GoPro HD on there.
I've been thinking about getting one just for my drone lol.Since it creates it's own wifi signal, wonder if they make it operate on the 5ghz? Also wireless N would be cool too for 1080p streaming. What's also nice is a built-in option for recording without heading towards 3rd party app.
Start ? This is the same stuff that was being announced and shipped in 2011 : high priced, high performance, not-quite-consumer stuff.
Where are the consumer Thunderbolt devices ?
MacBookPro13";14130339 said:Haha you fell for it
Haha you asked for it.
The thunderbolt equipped ext ssd is probably going to be $$$$
Why not have just an empty Thunderbolt enclosure, now that I would buy.
Fixed.
That could be a major problem for Thunderbolt adoption though. Is Apple again steering users towards a niche technology rather than the industry standard ?
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Oops. At the price this thing will be and with the capacity it will have, it won't be a consumer product. An internal SSD drive maybe, an external SSD drive for consumers ? What are you storing on there that requires 750 MB/s transfer ? Music/video to playback on your Mac ? Yeah, call me when we achieve those bitrates...
Thunderbolt is looking more and more like a professional/prosumer technology, made for niche applications. The consumer devices just aren't trickling through.
Penny-wise, dollar-foolish
We've been replacing internal HDs in our older Core 2 Duo Macs with SSDs, giving them new life at a fraction of the cost of a new one. If you've got a newer Mac with a hard drive, bet you one of our 2006 models with SSD outperforms it overall.
Your time must not be worth very much.
We've been replacing internal HDs in our older Core 2 Duo Macs with SSDs, giving them new life at a fraction of the cost of a new one. If you've got a newer Mac with a hard drive, bet you one of our 2006 models with SSD outperforms it overall.
Don't expect to see Thunderbolt 16GB flash drives. USB 2.0 is fine for that, and USB 3.0 generally doubles throughput for compatible devices. Expect the Ivy Bridge Macs to support USB 3.0, just as Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks will support Thunderbolt (as Acer has already announced today).
However, at $2/GB, these OCZ drives can provide a good external storage option. Someone with a MacBook Air or Ultrabook with a 128GB internal SSD could purchase one of these for $256 and get additional storage at the same speed. It's a lot less kludgy than the setup I have (TB to Sonnet Echo to eSATA Expresscard), plus it is bus-powered.
It won't take long (probably later this year) for someone to come out with a similar enclosure with a standard hard drive. They are likely just waiting for Windows support.
Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if Ultrabook manufacturers start introducing Thunderbolt displays and "docking stations" using the port. That's probably the most important consumer application. The Apple Thunderbolt Display shows the way. Provided Intel doesn't screw something up (e.g. that proprietary secondary connector that made it through the rumor mill a few months ago), TB is the perfect interface for a docking station, and it would enable people to use a dock with different computers from different manufacturers.
Fixed your long rant. Could have easily been just that. Frankly, why are you still a "believer" at this point, close to a year later ? Should be obvious by now where this is all headed.
Heck, that Belkin port extender should be a huge clue...
No, you butchered it. TB is overkill for things like flash drives and mice, and you are just being your typical Apple curmudgeon self with your rants.
TB is perfect for things like docks and big displays with docks. Those are consumer devices. I expect the rumored Apple TV would also use TB instead of HDMI. Just because Belkin thinks it can get $300 for its dock doesn't mean others will be as delusional.