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Apple Thunderbolt Cable and Promise Thunderbolt RAID Systems Hit the Apple Store

840quadra said:
It comes to a point were it is easy to think we are being price gouged. That is worse than most gold plated HDMI cables. That better be an ounce of pure silver wiring for that price! :eek:
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You obviously never bought SCSI cables back in the day. they were 80 dollars and above just for the cable....not to mention 40 dollars for the terminator....
 
^ Considering the price, yeah. I think USB is here to stay for a long time.

I would have thought selling something that isn't too popular cheaply would be a good way of making it popular.
 
Vol7ron said:
You obviously never bought SCSI cables back in the day. they were 80 dollars and above just for the cable....not to mention 40 dollars for the terminator....
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That assumption is incorrect. I have a few of such cables still in a bin (likely in my garage). That being said, at least you were getting a bit more for your money then too.


baryon said:
lol. Long live USB! I'm personally fine with waiting 2 minutes longer for my file transfer.
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Seconds? I guess you aren't copying more than a few JPEG files then ;) .
 
Vol7ron said:
You obviously never bought SCSI cables back in the day. they were 80 dollars and above just for the cable....not to mention 40 dollars for the terminator....
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Yeah, back in the days when a megabyte of RAM was $400. :D
 
I'd be all over that but for it only having Thunderbolt... I'd like to plug it into my Extreme for universal access to the storage when needed.
 
Don't buy too soon, because...

Don't buy too soon, because equipment using Apple's implementation of Light Peak with copper with a mini Display Port will soon be legacy hardware, unsupported by Apple or anyone else. Kind of like the old Apple Desktop Bus cabling. Why?

Because what Intel has promised and what everyone really wants is Light Peak running on fiber optic cabling at TEN times the speed of Apple's copper-based T-bolt. I predict the this will be available within a year or two at the most and only then will we see widespread adoption. That means that everyone who bought into Apple's copper scheme will be left with orphan hardware, slow and unsupported.
 
wohhooo .. so excited about that thunderbolt port on my MBP .. so glad it is there
</sarcasm>

honestely though, the Sony Vario setup showcases what Thunderbolt is really for and what Apple is going to use it for. The borders between different devices will vanish as you can easily plug devices together to a bigger, better machine. Your MBA will plug right into the display/docking station at home providing enough power to play games, while providing the portability when on the road.

I honestly do not believe that anybody needs a thunderbolt port for harddrive access.

T.
 
lol now the products are out, and people have to complain about the price.

Ummm.... we knew these were going to be expensive from the start, why is everyone so shocked?
 
I have takkes with representatives from LaCie about the LaCie littl big disk with dual ssd and thunderbolt, and they assured me it will be possible to boot from it. As it was the guy I talked to said he was actually using a preproduction model as a boot drive for his iMac.

He also told me they would be availibal in July.

Looks promising I would say.

And yeah it's expensive but this kind of raid ain't for consumers it's for professionals that need the speed. This Promise Pegasus Raid has close to 10x the speed your average consumer NAS. And still 5x the high end consumer NAS. And com on apple charging overprice for cables ain't something new.
 
islanders said:
Is T-bolt Apple only?
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No and yes. It is an Intel technology, but so far it is only implemented in Apple hardware (they got a headstart).
The new Sony Vario Z also uses the technology (lighpeak) but with a different connector.

T.
 
Thermonuclear said:
Don't buy too soon, because equipment using Apple's implementation of Light Peak with copper with a mini Display Port will soon be legacy hardware, unsupported by Apple or anyone else. Kind of like the old Apple Desktop Bus cabling. Why?

Because what Intel has promised and what everyone really wants is Light Peak running on fiber optic cabling at TEN times the speed of Apple's copper-based T-bolt. I predict the this will be available within a year or two at the most and only then will we see widespread adoption. That means that everyone who bought into Apple's copper scheme will be left with orphan hardware, slow and unsupported.
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It's not Apple's copper-based t-bolt, it's Intel's technology, and they are the ones who made it copper based for it's first implementation in order to cut costs associated with fiber, and they also need copper if they want to provide power to a device.
 
Erm... what does this photo mean? :D

H5184_AV6


Pegasus R4 only has TB port... and there's no Mac Pro with TB port yet!!!???

http://store.apple.com/us/product/H5184VC/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0Nw&mco=MjMwMzE1NTU
 
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