Look closely at the motherboards that is Apple motherboards. have look at the video and see for yourself.
Are you inferring they are Apple motherboards because running MacOS X ?
There are no Apple markings on those boards. Intel may also have special permission to run hackintosh systems in their R&D labs. That would be prudent for Apple to allow when Intel is working on earlier prototype silicon and wants to collect data for how it works when running MacOS X.
On youtube the next closely linked video is this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfGevFIVKw4&NR=1
No MacOS in sight. Also the far more closer to production Lighghtpeat PCI card appears to be the same color ( given the difference lighting).
anyway apple had plans for Light Peak in all their devises even the iPone/iPod back in 2007
Chuckle, yeah when Intel was shopping fiber based USB 3.0 to Apple back in 2007-2008 there probably were long term roadmap plans to put a "fiber based connector" on iPhone and iPod .
Apple going with some connector that is not extremely wide spread across all computers is dubious. If thought that was a good idea never would have dropped firewire for USB.
Intel has been shopping "fiber" and USB in some format or another for a very long time now.
Apple also like still have roadmap improvements aligned with USB 3.0 ( even though it is not fiber anymore) for iPhone/iPod . It is faster than 2.0 . It doesn't have to be revised to include power. It will be widely adopted and deployed sooner.
in the long run it is meant to replace all the others.
In short, you have to look at what lightpeak actually does. What is actually does is not what USB does. USB hub/spoke network of single protocol and legacy compatibility modes. Minimizing transmission infrastructure costs from low cost devices.
Lightpeak takes communication transmissions of several different protocols and transmits them to another device where decoded back into native protocols.
So no it is not a replacement. Intel would not like to portray this as yet another new connector and protocol. It is. The spin here is twofold.
1. Maybe, eventually, we can drop those other ones. There is no plan. There is no low cost support for replacement .... just hand waving allusions to eventually the billion devices currently out there coupled with the billion soon to be deployed ones will all die off and then everyone will have bought new ones with lightpeak. If that is the plan, it isn't going to happen.
2. Because run the legacy protocols over the new one it is "compatible". It isn't. If you plug a USB device into a lightpeak socket it won't work. It only works if there is a lightpeak router on either side of the lightpeak connection.
usb traffic gets encoded , then transmitted to another side, then decoded back to USB again on the other side. That isn't compatible at the end points. It makes an adjustment to the middle, long distance part of the transmission which is nice. However, need to add hardware a both end to make it transparent.
Your keyboard, mouse , usb thumb flash drive , etc. are not likely at all to transition to this new solution. Primarily because it is more expensive for little or no value added. There are tons of devices which get by currently and will get by in the long term future just fine with USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 transmission limitations with the current mechanism. Claims of "Fiber and transmitters will get cheaper for Lightpeak" makes zero sense. Almost all of the exact same forces will make the current mechanism gets cheaper also. Even when the difference is a couple of cents (not dollars) the lower one will still win. For sub 5Gb/s problems there is extremely scant evidence that Lightpeak will every be cheaper than the solutions now deployed or currently deploying.
May end up with USB & Lightpeak. More likely could end up with USB , Ethernet, & Lightpeak. However, will bet that some video connector slips onto the survivors list also. Firwire, eSATA, ExpressCard .. sure can kill those off. Those can easily be made dead men walking connectors for consumer devices.
Lightpeak may swallow up many of the other connectors. Intel is going to pitch it to try to swallow up as many as they can but it remains to be seen whether that will happen or not.
For instance, in a world were ISP run fiber to house can see how perhaps could pitch Lightpeak from/to fiber router/modem and other household devices as better (this is where the length argument over copper wire comes in. They'd try to get houses wired up this way. That will have limited traction since folks don't massively rewire housing much). Ethernet is likely to stick around for long while though.
