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CalDigit's $199 Thunderbolt Station Shipping November 4
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That's okay then I guess but it is still troubling that they don't have plans to release it as a bare enclosure. The video on their site indicates it will only be available with drives installed already. Which is annoying because they also tout the ability to have 2 drives in raid and an ssd as a JBOD, but the only way to do that would be buying it with 3 drives, shelving one of the drives and putting in your SSD.
Just give us the enclosure, try offering the bare enclosure and target selling more units this way rather than profiting on the resale of OEM drives and selling fewer prestocked units. So many of us are waiting on decent choices for Thunderbolt enclosures but companies just keep refusing to do business this way. Your target demographic knows the storage market and knows the only reason you don't offer bare enclosures is to profit on cheap OEM drives, it is insulting.
Just download the newest ASIX drivers straight from ASIX website. The Kanex uses the chipset. Works for me under Mavericks.
Having one tb-device without passthrough and one external display other than Apple's and you are out of ports. Not very pro.
Btw, IF Apple would be interested to increase tb acceptance, they could make a whole series of affordable & stackable tb-adapters with atv's or airport's footprint (3.85"). Only one type of connection + tb x 2 + chainable power cord socket x2. Maybe one stackable box could be AC power for the others and macbooks...
It's a Barm, not breadcake.
Oh and for the americans - it's Sol-der. Not Sawwwder. Say it how it's spelt, just like aluminium.
Anyway back on topic ... this thing has potential. Shame my monitor doesn't have an HDMI port.
Hey, they pronounce aluminium differently because they spell it differently. You lot on the wrong side of the Pennines are worse, you pronounce bread as barm, it's spelt breadcake, so that's how it's pronounced
( Remind me never to order a chip buttie in Manchester!)
If you check the American pronunciation on dictionary.com or merriam-webster.com, you'll find it's properly pronounced SAH-der.It's a Barm, not breadcake.
Oh and for the americans - it's Sol-der. Not Sawwwder. Say it how it's spelt, just like aluminium.
Anyway back on topic ... this thing has potential. Shame my monitor doesn't have an HDMI port.
We don't tell you how to pronounce things, yet *we're* the arrogant ones, right? Oh, bollocks. Bloody, sodding Nonces trying to bugger up our language!
If you check the American pronunciation on dictionary.com or merriam-webster.com, you'll find it's properly pronounced SAH-der.
We don't tell you how to pronounce things, yet *we're* the arrogant ones, right? Oh, bollocks. Bloody, sodding Nonces trying to bugger up our language!
Letting Americans speak English is like getting a maxxed out MacPro and using it to run Windows Vista
Hey, they pronounce aluminium differently because they spell it differently. You lot on the wrong side of the Pennines are worse, you pronounce bread as barm, it's spelt breadcake, so that's how it's pronounced
( Remind me never to order a chip buttie in Manchester!)
They should just spell it properly, along with a number of other words.
Simples.Bread is still bread. I don't walk into Greggs and ask for a loaf of Barm! Chip butty is still a chip butty, unless you want a chip barm. I've seen my sister ask for "bread then chips then bread" when she lived near Stoke and they'd never heard of a Barm. Bunch of heathens down there.
That dock is just using the Apple Powercord you already own, not their own built in or one they send you. Nice try though.
*Our MacBook docking system reuses a customer's existing Apple supplied MagSafe power source* -from their website
Does it have a DVI port? (I’d assume so)
DVI-to-HDMI is just a cable - I’m using this one from Monoprice, very high quality:
http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=102&cp_id=10231&cs_id=1023102&p_id=2218&seq=1&format=2
~$8.00 USD
You can also score a DVI-HDMI adapter for about 1/2 that if you’ve got HDMI cables lying around (though I prefer the all in one cable option).
Using that from a ViewSonic IPS 24”, DVI >> [cable] >>HDMI >> [adapter] >>TB/DP
IMO this makes no sense at all. For $224 you should just upgrade to a newer generation iMac.
I was so hoping this could allow a 2011" Macbook Pro to power two external displays - one Thunderbolt and one HDMI - but the numbers just don't add up. A single Thunderbolt 1 port simply isn't fast enough to drive two high res monitors unless it's at a really low refresh rate.
For example:
Two 2,560x1,600 monitors = 8 megapixels x 3 bytes/pixel = 24 megabytes/frame x 8 bits/byte = 192 megabits/frame.
Not sure how much of that 10 gigabits/second to count on, if we had it all, we'd get 10,000 / 192 = 52 frames per second. And that's 100% ideal, without using any of the other ports.
Bottom line - you really need Thunderbolt 2.0 to handle two monitors at decent refresh rates, especially once you plug other peripherals into it. Better instead to think of these Thunderbolt 1.0 docks as supporting a single external monitor.
Example 2: One 24" 1,920 x 1,200 monitor on HDMI, and one 30" 2,560 x 1,600 on display port.
Requires 153 megabits/frame. 10,000 / 153 = 65 fps. Almost respectable, but again, we're not gonna get 100% of ideal Thunderbolt bitrate.
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BTW He meant it would cost him US$224.00 to BUY the Thunderbolt Station (with cable) from CalDigit. This will enable him to update his present system by adding USB3 using this solution. To purchase a replacement iMac would cost a lot more money, even with a trade in.
At least that's what I understand.
This was mentioned in an earlier post, not sure if you saw it:
http://www.hengedocks.com/order_horizontal_dock.php
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Yeah, I would think the loss of selling a 2 year old (2-3 revisions behind) iMac would be a good bit more, plus I put a value on my time (for setting up a new machine, etc.). This is ~$200, you connect it, done.
Yes, the dock costs $224 with the thunderbolt cable.
There is no way I could sell a used computer and buy the newest model for anywhere near that price, never mind the time and hassle to craigslist/ebay the used computer.
Of course, for those who frequently replace their computer, I might not be worth it, but I am hoping to get years out of the iMac before replacement.
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This was mentioned in an earlier post, not sure if you saw it:
http://www.hengedocks.com/order_horizontal_dock.php
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Yeah, I would think the loss of selling a 2 year old (2-3 revisions behind) iMac would be a good bit more, plus I put a value on my time (for setting up a new machine, etc.). This is ~$200, you connect it, done.
Yes, that was my thinking.
Ok, I was thinking like refurbished 2012 gen. But if you don't want the hassle then that's a point I didn't think of.
What about "zed" for the letter "zee"? Or their pronunciation of "aluminum"?
An American having a dig at how an Englishman speaks English is quite ironic.
Yes, there are also many, many dialects here in the UK too... just as Americans from Boston speak differently to Americans from Texas.
But I can't stand to hear aluminium pronounced 'alooooominum'. lol
Also, 'negative' instead of 'minus' grinds my gears a bit, and loads of other stuff, hah.
Whatever though... American English isn't English... It's a bastardised version. Not in a necessarily bad way... just different.
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but can you plus a PS3 or apple TV into it? that's the only reason i'd want one so i could use my imac screen. sux everything has HDMI but it
Looks like a great device although I am wondering if the audio in is mic level only or is it switchable to line level too. I have to have line level for the recordings I do.
Just to be clear, there is no such thing as a thunderbolt anything. They all have to use some sort of protocol to hook up to thunderbolt. Even these new PCIe drives use SATA Express as their method of traversing PCIe.