Fanboys. I mean who else enjoys paying more for less 100% of the time?
Bose and Monster Cable evangelists.
Fanboys. I mean who else enjoys paying more for less 100% of the time?
What a bizarre and rather rude comment. How on earth do you presume to know what my qualifications are???
As it happens, although not specialising in hardware design, I am a physicist and have worked in IT for 30 years.
Translation: Chippy99 took a class in physics in high school and now works a computer at McDonalds.
4+ hard drive setups are better served with TB as you're hitting the USB3 spec by that point.Since the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro have USB 3.0 ports I bet the new MacMini and iMac will have them also so ext TB HDDs are dead meat now unless you like to pay 3x as much for the same performance.
http://www.ecost.com/p/Western-Digital-Hard-Drives/product~dpno~9068905~pdp.hbcfjjd?source=EWB20046
http://www.ecost.com/p/LaCie-Removable-Hard-Drives/product~dpno~9105214~pdp.hcjeaji
4+ hard drive setups are better served with TB as you're hitting the USB3 spec by that point.
More than one SSD in RAID 0? TB, period.
TB has more bandwidth than USB3. Obviously you can think of some situation where TB may be better suited - but it still costs a lot more, and the average user doesn't have 5 external hard drives all hooked up at one time.
I, as a consumer cannot express how disgusted I am with thunderbolt.
Actually let me correct myself, Im not disgusted with thunderbolt, I'm disgusted by these companies who want to rape and pillage my wallet.
THESE PRICES WILL KILL THUNDERBOLT.
People sure feel strongly about this stuff...
And yet those of us that said it would be this way before and just after it first came out got a freaking earful from the fanboy on here about how GREAT Thunderbolt is and how it would just destroy USB3, etc. etc., blah blah blah blah while we told them that it would get very little support (relatively speaking) at VERY high prices for a LONG time to come (if not always). All I can say to those people is I TOLD YOU SO!
Really, who pays $400 for a hub without a cable included, which brings the total price to at least $450.
Seems like they're pushing this back until at least Q1 2013.
To be fair, I think it's only become perceived that way since the rise of Apple and the (relative) fall of Microsoft. The original Apple supporter was simply one who had a negative opinion of Windows®, and appreciated many of Apple's divergent and frequently innovative design choices.That's because a lot of Apple lovers are fanboy sheep. They're inclined to believe everything that Apple does is the right thing and don't ever question their practices and decisions even when it's deserving. Clear objectivity is not a trait of most who're here on these forums.
Lots of people are griping here about the price and the merits of USB 3.0 vs Thunderbolt. The price is low for this docking station if you have a real need for something like this
Apple's already completely trashed their line of computers, the last thing they need to do is to gimp all of them with a lousy mobile processor.
OS X has been a snoozefest since Snow Leopard with its ridiculous iPadification. Mac Pros haven't received a legitimate upgrade in YEARS for professionals. iMacs got gimped by being limited to one hard drive, no user replaceable ram and no optical drive in a DESKTOP that many professionals still use (iMacs get used frequently in design studios). And the Macbooks... at least they kept the normal line of MacBook Pros with a combo drive, I got mine loaded with two drives (one for OS and the other 1TB for storage and files). They gimp that too and I'll make that the last macbook I buy. The Mac Pro doesn't look like a reasonable purchase either.
Congratulations Apple, you've officially set yourself up for fail.
I've been saying thunderbolt has been a failure for almost a year now and got slammed by forum members for stating WHY its a failure.
Is anyone even defending thunderbolt's overpriced peripherals? I can't believe an expensive gimped hub like that actually WENT UP in price.
I'm getting the impression you use this word "gimp" a LOT.