Excited!!!
How long are the stores typically down for before going up again with the new stuff?
Also, if apple aren't unveiling their new mbps until after the intel event doesn't this seem a little early for the store to go down.
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Intel to Launch 'Thunderbolt' on Thursday? MacBook Pros to Follow?
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Excited!!!
How long are the stores typically down for before going up again with the new stuff?
Also, if apple aren't unveiling their new mbps until after the intel event doesn't this seem a little early for the store to go down.
15'' specs out, they say in another thread:
http://www.mac4ever.com/news/60834/exclu_macbook_pro_15_les_specifications/
http://www.mac4ever.com/news/60834/exclu_macbook_pro_15_les_specifications/
It would, however, make the life of people working in retail stores a lot more fun.
"And here we have the new apple macbook pro with the latest intel processors and the all new woosh wire."
These are not primarily used by people who go to conference rooms. The MBPs are Pro as in "pro-sumer". Every real professional/business computer has a VGA port for the reason you state.
I cant say the I like the renaming to Thunderbolt either. Light Peak seemed cool
Yeah Thunderbolt just sounds cheesy. Lightpeak sounds kinda futuristic
- Sync your iPhone/iPod/iPad in less than a second, no matter how much you need to send to the device
- Send large files from device to device in seconds, not minutes
- Restore your Mac from a Time Machine backup in seconds
USB 2 was released 11 years ago and we haven't had much of a jump in speed since. Imagine of we were using the same CPUs that we were using in the year 2000. It's time to move on.
I'm not sure the 1st and 3rd really work - do iOS devices have that kind of read/write speed (10Gbps)? Or even external (Time Machine) hard drives?
Nice to have speed, but what's out there at the moment that can take advantage of that kind of bandwidth? (Genuine question, not rhetorical!
)p.s. anyone have any idea what the following means:
"can support every important I/O standard"
I'm not sure the 1st and 3rd really work - do iOS devices have that kind of read/write speed (10Gbps)? Or even external (Time Machine) hard drives?
Nice to have speed, but what's out there at the moment that can take advantage of that kind of bandwidth? (Genuine question, not rhetorical!
p.s. anyone have any idea what the following means:
"can support every important I/O standard"
we'll have to wait for our holographic 3D data storage for the kind of i/o speeds you'd need to support light peak unfortunately
"Hey everyone, lets get rid of all those wacky specialty connectors by creating one super connector that uses an existing port on a computer. We'll call it Thunderbolt and it will use the rarest and dumbest specialty connector found on one brand of computer that natively works with one device based on a technology that is dieing faster than laserdisc. It will be HUGE!"
-overheard at the Intel offices
-overheard at the Intel offices
Is there a possibility of adding an external graphic card solution through Thuderbolt. I read that it's related to pci express -technology to some extent. x4 was mentioned.
Now that you mention it you will probably be capped to the x4 PCIe 2.0 bandwidth available off of the PCH. The CPU only has x16 PCIe 2.0 lanes for the GPU and then DMI 2.0 to work off of for I/O.
X58 or the future X68 platforms would be better suited to get around the bottlenecks of DMI.
This would be a good little port to have on say something along the lined of a "MacBook Air". Just saying.
I think we will find Thunderbolt is the copper variant and Light Peak is the optical variant. Having a first ever popular PCIe external connector is an achievement all by itself, but to integrate several protocols over a single line and connector is a thing. With a daisy-chain protocol akin to SCSI back in the day (1984!) where you could connect your HD, scanner, and other high I/O peripherals.
I have been chiming in about Macintosh's I/O crippling for years and hoping for some connector, any connector, that could surpass FW800 or PCIe over Expresscard/34.
I cannot use advanced search to find the string I/O in my posts because it contains the character /, but they are there from many moons ago.
I see OSX Lion is adding more Lisa-like features.
Rocketman
I have been chiming in about Macintosh's I/O crippling for years and hoping for some connector, any connector, that could surpass FW800 or PCIe over Expresscard/34.
I cannot use advanced search to find the string I/O in my posts because it contains the character /, but they are there from many moons ago.
I see OSX Lion is adding more Lisa-like features.
Rocketman
Dear Intel,
"Thunderbolt?" Really?
Remember when you were in junior high and the chicks thought you were odd? It's because while all the cool kids were going on and on about high performance cars, like Mustangs, Corvettes, and Cameros, you thought the "Pinto" was "boss."
"Light Peak" is like a high performance Cobra Mustang and you named it something I will always be embarrassed to repeat. Therefore I will always call it Light Peak.
You dorks.
"Thunderbolt?" Really?
Remember when you were in junior high and the chicks thought you were odd? It's because while all the cool kids were going on and on about high performance cars, like Mustangs, Corvettes, and Cameros, you thought the "Pinto" was "boss."
"Light Peak" is like a high performance Cobra Mustang and you named it something I will always be embarrassed to repeat. Therefore I will always call it Light Peak.
You dorks.