Anyone else dissapointed with the rollout of Thunderbolt products?

[jesterscourt]

What Thunderbolt products?

...exactly.

 

[xlii]

I'm not disappointed. It's a new standard that may take awhile to be utilized across various models etc. Who knows what will happen after the hype clears.

Comparing FW800 to USB2... once you get a taste of FW800 compared to USB2 you'll never go back.

 

[thedomus]

While I like the flexibility that would offer, that is quite pricey. You need that, a Thunderbolt cable and a card - just to connect it to an external peripheral.

...and what if you are a MBPro user connected to an ACD, the unit only has one Thunderpants port so you can't daisy chain... doh!

 

[CWallace]

9 to 5 Mac noted a new product from Magma: a three-slot PCIe 2.0 expansion chassis

http://www.prweb.com/releases/magma/expressbox3t/prweb8767911.htm

 

[DarwinOSX]

Copper is because Intel can't do fiber for a long time yet. if they hadn't used copper we wouldn't have TB anything for a long time.
You can expect devices around end of the year.

It does seem to be crawling along. If the architecture really is based on the PCI-E spec why is implementation taking so long?

Are the delays at all related to Apple making this a copper based format rather than the optical approach Intel had designed it for?

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Prediction. You are wrong.

It makes no sense to compare TB with FW800, USB 3, etc.

TB can do video, sound, data, and network through one cable at very high speeds. None of the others do anything like that and at best they are half the speed.

Sony, Asus, and Acer have all announced TB ports and the other PC makers will be doing so shortly.

Prediction:

Thunderbolt is going to prove slightly less popular in the mass market as firewire 800.

How many folks do you know that use their firewire 800 ports, vis-a-vis their USB ports?

 

[canyonlight]

Thunderbolt Disappointment

Notwithstanding all of the above mentioned factors, it really is a disappointment that more devices are not on the market. Maybe LaCie just has a weird definition of "end of summer." Or perhaps they meant 2012.

 

[rwhalen]

Notwithstanding all of the above mentioned factors, it really is a disappointment that more devices are not on the market. Maybe LaCie just has a weird definition of "end of summer." Or perhaps they meant 2012.

Looks like they are starting to roll them out:

http://www.cultofmac.com/114700/lacies-thunderbolt-equipped-little-big-disk-hits-apple-store/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cultofmac%2FbFow+%28Cult+of+Mac%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

 

[jsolares]

Copper is because Intel can't do fiber for a long time yet. if they hadn't used copper we wouldn't have TB anything for a long time.
You can expect devices around end of the year.

It makes no sense to compare TB with FW800, USB 3, etc.

TB can do video, sound, data, and network through one cable at very high speeds. None of the others do anything like that and at best they are half the speed.

Sony, Asus, and Acer have all announced TB ports and the other PC makers will be doing so shortly.

Intel can do fiber, they showed the first hardware with fiber, they couldn't do fiber cheaply tho.

USB2 and for that matter 3 can do video, sound, data and network as well

 

[DustinT]

I'm willing to spend quite a bit on it, considering the only way to get a comparable effect on my iMac would be to ship it off to someone I trust to open it up and install an SSD.

Actually, iSCSI is a great format that a lot of NAS units support that will deliver pretty substantial speeds today, figure 30-70% faster than Firewire 800. It is fast enough for me. But the, I've got an SSD in my MBP and an iSCSI 9tb array at my home office.