They CAN'T charge more than $50 for this.
Thunderbolt is looking expensive. My hunch is a price of $100. I think $70 would be as good as it's reasonable to hope, but $120 wouldn't surprise me.
They CAN'T charge more than $50 for this.
USB can cover that. Or wireless.If belkin revises this thing and gives it audio out all via thunderbolt, I'm sold.
...One of the main reasons to buy this is to address Apple's stupid omission of Ethernet from the Air. There are still plenty of hotels that have only wired connections (I was in one last week, in fact the nicest room I've ever seen in a U.S. hotel). And so what does Apple do? Omit the most universal network connector from the computer that's most likely to be taken on the road.
I still need something with two thunderbolt ports so I can use two external monitors with my MBP. Hopefully a solution comes out soon.
I was so giddy to buy a MBP in Feb.
Then an imac in May.
So ecstatic to get my hands on this future-proofish technology.
But spring?
I could be dead by then.
Also curious how much daisy chaining can really be done, with the maximum throughput being 10Gb/s.
Through one port, could you power the thunderbolt display, this box with 2 firewire raid drives daisy chained + thunderbolt raid drives??
It's good that the 27" imac has 2x thunderbolt in case this does cripple throughput.
They should really consider 2x thunderbolts in the 15" and 17" MBPs.
It's so tiny anyway...
I want a thunderbolt port in my head.
10 Gbs is WAY more than enough to support a display and multiple FW800 devices.
http://www.belkin.com/pressRoom/releases/uploads/BelkinThunderbolt_010812.html
we have a price ($299) and a release date (September)
Thats your biggest issue? Not the $300 price tag? $300 is asinine. LaCie has an esata dock they have announced as well. Should be out in the 1st quarter of this year.
http://www.belkin.com/pressRoom/releases/uploads/BelkinThunderbolt_010812.html
we have a price ($299) and a release date (September)
Anyone else find this worrying?
Belkin is usually a/ quick to market and b/ cheap.
What is it about Thunderbolt that's making this device take a whole year to get into production? Why on earth is it going to cost $300?
Worries me that something bad is going on behind the scenes at Intel - and they're having problems rolling out high volume low cost interface chips.