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Apple Revamps Thunderbolt Cable Lineup with Lower Pricing, Shorter Cable Option
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Not good for us.
TB can become a FireWire port, a Gigabit Port, an extension for the PCIe port to expand graphic card capabilities, etc, not to mention connect to a display and the display becomes a hub, etc.
USB3.0 cannot.
TB is a PCIe extension directly connected to the motherboard, kind of like the now dead ExpressCard.
If you've known about it for a week, it would have been helpful if you'd told us about it at any point.
And that matters how? Telling MacRumors about good Apple/mac related info has no relation to whether the info is written up as an article. The articles are written up on their own schedule. Sure I am happy about the article quality here, not perfect but one of the best rumour sites (quality wise out there).
Just don't expect your telling MacRumors anything to magically translate into a speedily written article based on your info. Not gonna happen.
Judging by this... How much will the 10 metre one cost?
Going by the extra cost of the longer option, it works about to $7.50 per meter? That's expensive wire!
Thank you apple for giving us this awesome port that makes the iMac, MacBook Air and Mac Mini so powerful and upgradeable without making them big and bulky with lots of extra ports. I was a huge fan of firewire 800, using it for all my external hard drives, now we finally have something even better.
For all the haters who think it's a failure just like firewire LOL. It's real simple and you just don't get it. I could audibly hear a huge difference in how my hard drives worked over Firewire vs USB, Firewire smooth as butter just like esata, usb noisy and choppy. Looking at the speed of USB 3 is like looking at megapixels of a camera.
For all the haters who think it's a failure just like firewire LOL. It's real simple and you just don't get it.
I could audibly hear a huge difference in how my hard drives worked over Firewire vs USB, Firewire smooth as butter just like esata, usb noisy and choppy. Looking at the speed of USB 3 is like looking at megapixels of a camera.Thunderbolt won't be ubiquitous like USB 3.0. However, it can still be useful. I don't know why Intel doesn't insist on it as part of the Ultrabook spec (instead they focus on silly things like Wi-Di and touchscreens). It would be the perfect port for a universal docking station, since it has greater capabilities than USB 3.0. Apple has the right idea with the Thunderbolt monitor. With the cable down to a more reasonable $29 and a smaller size, maybe we'll see some companies take it more seriously. The $300 docks are a start, but we really need to get these down below $200 before anyone will notice. Decent USB 3.0 docks are about $150.
Judging by this... How much will the 10 metre one cost?
If you need it, you don't care.
I hear one day they might figure out how to put both types of ports on the same computer!
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This question has often plagued me!
No seriously, I just think everyone needs to chill out and whine less.
+ 199 US$, if you need/want eSATA.Excellent, now the Belkin Thunderbolt box is only $299 + $29
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Reatime applications over USB 3.0? Target disk mode over USB 3.0? ≈ 500 MByte/s read speed over USB 3.0? Nope!USB 3.0 put the pressure on TB. Good! When there are choices, the consumer wins!
If you've known about it for a week, it would have been helpful if you'd told us about it at any point.
I had thought about submitting it to MR but i thought it wasn't exactly front page news.
Just incase anyone wondered, i saw these cables while checking out a BTO mac mini, and it gave me the option of buying the two cables, and i thought "huh, they do a 0.5m cable now."
Then why don't you start producing them and selling them by the thousands at your better price? Looks like a great opportunity for you.