Blunderbolt.
Unfortunately, this sums it up rather well.
Lots of promise. Lots of promises.
Despite that, I very much like my 27" TB display.
Blunderbolt.
PS: Those who have the first computers that had Thunderbolt, your computers will soon go obsolete while you still hadn't even had a chance to connect anything to the Thunderbolt port. Just like the Mini DisplayPort.
I still say it should have been called "Lightning Bolt". I've heard of a Bolt of Lightning, but not a Bolt of Thunder. By the time I buy a new Mac Pro, it will be available everywhere as a standard.
Fail
Thunderbolt
Ping
Mobile Me
Siri
Passbook
Newsstand
Safari for PC
iAd
Half fail/half success
iMessage
iCloud
Photostream
iBooks
Lightning
Success/To be successful
iTunes
App Store
Safari for iPhones
Camera
Maps
RPM is how fast the platter spins, not how fast the data comes off the platter. Just like on your car, the tachometer does not tell you how fast you are going.
In isk drives, sustained i/o rate is the aerial bit density times the tangential speed. Instantaneous bit rate is set by the speed of the drive's cache.
Unfortunately, this sums it up rather well.
Lots of promise. Lots of promises.
Despite that, I very much like my 27" TB display.
Why is it so hard to develop a dock that just simply has USB, and dual DVI outputs.. That's it. I don't want to connect two thunderbolts to my laptop, but just one + power is ideal.
This is a very poor post.
That's the best I can do without getting banned by the hyper sensitive church of macrumors.
Half fail/half success
iMessage
My macbook air has been such a diappointment, on so many levels. I don't think I'd get a docking station for it anymore, even if they were cheaper. It's just not worth it when you have a full desktop [read as: a computer with a real HDD] a foot away.
No clap of thunder here.
Its like FireWire all over again. Apple was slow to include, made only 2 products to use it, and it started to loose ground to a much lesser technology, USB.
And for another 500 bucks you can get a 27" screen thrown in......
Current thunderbolt is, but its made to scale up and go optical and 10x as fast eventually I think.
Have to disagree with you on iMessage. When it works, it's transparent, free and powerful. When it fails, it defaults to SMS and the message goes through anyway. When my daughter was overseas last winter, we exchanged massive numbers of texts via iMessage, many with photos and video attached. And it was 100% free (aside from the cost of her UK data plan).
And under iOS6 and Mountain Lion they've finally got the synchronization pretty well down from what I can tell. I'm seeing near perfect syncing of messages among my two Macs and iPhone.
In my experience, iMessage "just works" and you barely know it's there. That seems like a success to me.
Have to disagree with you on iMessage. When it works, it's transparent, free and powerful. When it fails, it defaults to SMS and the message goes through anyway. When my daughter was overseas last winter, we exchanged massive numbers of texts via iMessage, many with photos and video attached. And it was 100% free (aside from the cost of her UK data plan).
And under iOS6 and Mountain Lion they've finally got the synchronization pretty well down from what I can tell. I'm seeing near perfect syncing of messages among my two Macs and iPhone.
In my experience, iMessage "just works" and you barely know it's there. That seems like a success to me.
TB is great technology, but theres really only one thing I want from it: external GPUs! A MacBook Air that has better graphics at home than when Im on the go. Maybe the only supported GPUs would be the ones Apple already sells for Mac Pros, I dont know... but something! Please.
The problem is how ambitious these companies have been. They want the docks to do just about everything possible. No surprise it isn't easy to achieve their lofty goal.
They should have made two docks, one with just USB3 + Gigabit Ethernet, and another with all their fancy trimmings.
Fail
Thunderbolt
Ping
Mobile Me
Siri
Passbook
Newsstand
Safari for PC
iAd
You are joking right? It's only in one of the most famous songs ever!
"Thunderbolts and lightning
Very very frightening
To mee to meeee to meeeeeeeee"
Air guitar solo
As for Lightning, how is it half fail/success? Would you have said the same for USB when it debuted in 1995 but didn't take up until it iMac adopted it as exclusive peripheral connector 3 years later?
When you say "never" do you mean pre-ML and iOS6? Because I had a ton of trouble getting syncing sorted prior to those updates as well. It was very spotty in the Lion beta and still rough in the first 10.8 version. But post Mountain Lion and iOS6, it's working perfectly. The only hitch I occasionally see is an old message or two showing on the Mac out of sequence when it "catches up" to what I was doing on the phone before.Its never synced for me or 2 of my friends....I love the idea of being able to send a message using a keyboard but if the conversation doesnt flow between all devices than its ****