Lacie TB drive delayed?

[mac jones]

There's a report that these are being held up until early winter?

Geesh, what a bummer if true.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/07/15/promise.drive.still.available.no.reason.for.delay/

 

[menomano]

read the article before you post.
This refers to the Australian market (first link in the article). Winter there is summer in the northern hemisphere.

nothing changed.

 

[Steve's Barber]

This whole ThunderBolt thing is sounding like a clever bait and switch. (And before before all the Apple Worshipers here disagree, let's hear about your new TB device on the market today that didn't require a freaking 2nd mortgage on your house).

The way I see it, I just swapped out a working FW port when I upgraded. Screw the pricey crap. Where the hell are all these TB adapters at?

 

[mac jones]

read the article before you post.
This refers to the Australian market (first link in the article). Winter there is summer in the northern hemisphere.

nothing changed.

Ha!, that's why I posted. I wasn't sure about that and forgot about the winter/summer thing.

Thanks

Would be a bit unnerving if it was true.

Ok, so I screwed up a little....

 

[Mr MM]

This whole ThunderBolt thing is sounding like a clever bait and switch. (And before before all the Apple Worshipers here disagree, let's hear about your new TB device on the market today that didn't require a freaking 2nd mortgage on your house).

The way I see it, I just swapped out a working FW port when I upgraded. Screw the pricey crap. Where the hell are all these TB adapters at?

errr... where did you lost your firewire port? its still there.

a high I/O port like that is made for professional use, the peripherals are going to cost more, and I have never heard about a NAS that was cheap.

Basically multimedia professionals are the ones that are going to get the benefit:

cams
external pcie adapter, for cards like gpus, soundcards and so forth
external storage of large files
and so forth...

The idea is to have a direct connection to the pcie slot, thus only things that use that kind of high I/O are going to be benefited. And they never are cheap