No I said I have MBP retina which thankfully has usb 3.0 included. If the cost of the thunderbolt controller is that high, then Apple/Intel should start subsidizing to drive consumer cost down. We are still seeing lots of issues with thunderbolt devices, system lockups/freezes, if you read the revies/forums. That's why I am holding off. If I buy that expensive I want top notch quality. If the manufacturer adoption rate gets higher we will also get better drivers and more stable solutions quicker. It's just slow in coming and what do Apple/Intel do on this front? Not much so it seems.
Apple has done their part and then some. They've shipped over 30 million of those controllers without increasing the retail price of the products to which they were added. Further subsidies would be foolish. 10GBASE-T would probably take off as well if all the OEM's took a bath and included it at no additional charge throughout their line-ups. Have you ever looked at Intel's prices for CPU's? The cheapest Ivy Bridge mobile Core i3 processors list for $225. Intel's looking to raise prices, increase margins and halt the race to the bottom in the PC space. My point was that Thunderbolt is a premium technology from a consumer perspective, full stop. I doubt that will ever change, regardless of adoption rate.
Better validation for Thunderbolt devices does need to happen, but it also takes time. That is no doubt one of the reasons we've seen so many shipping dates rolled back. The Thunderbolt Drobos for instance, where are they?
If you look at the list of available Thunderbolt accessories, you quickly see that almost all of them are for doing work (professionals) rather than entertainment (consumers). And in case anyone's interested, I happen to have such a list:
AJA ioXT
AJA KiStor Dock
AJA T-TAP
Apple Apple Thunderbolt Display
Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter
ATTO ThunderLink FC Thunderbolt to 8Gb/s Fibre Channel Desklink
ATTO ThunderLink NS Thunderbolt to 10GbE Desklink (SFP+)
ATTO ThunderLink NT Thunderbolt to 10GbE Desklink (10GBASE-T)
ATTO ThunderLink SH Thunderbolt to 6Gb/s SAS/SATA Desklink
ATTO ThunderStream SC Thunderbolt to 6Gb/s SAS RAID Desklink
Avid Pro Tools|HD Native Thunderbolt Interface
Blackmagic Design Intensity Shuttle for Thunderbolt
Blackmagic Design Intensity Extreme
Blackmagic Design UltraStudio 3D
Blackmagic Design UltraStudio Express
Blackmagic Design UltraStudio Mini Monitor
Blackmagic Design UltraStudio Mini Recorder
Blackmagic Design UltraStudio 4K
Blackmagic Design Blackmagic Cinema Camera EF
Blackmagic Design Teranex 2D Processor
Blackmagic Design Universal Videohub Editing Interface
Buffalo Technology MiniStation Thunderbolt (2 variants)
Elgato Thunderbolt SSD (2 variants)
Freecom Mobile Drive Mg USB 3.0 & Thunderbolt
G-Technology G-RAID with Thunderbolt (3 variants)
LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt (4 variants)
LaCie 2big Thunderbolt (2 variants)
LaCie eSATA Hub Thunderbolt Series
LaCie Rugged USB3 Thunderbolt Series (3 variants)
Matrox MXO2 Thunderbolt adapter
Other World Computing OWC Mercury Helios PCIe Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis (5 variants)
Promise Pegasus R4 (2 variants)
Promise Pegasus R6 (3 variants)
Promise SANLink
Promise Pegasus J2 (2 variants)
Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter (2 variants)
Seagate GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt Adapter (2 variants)
Sonnet Echo ExpressCard/34 Thunderbolt Adapter
Sonnet Echo Pro ExpressCard/34 Thunderbolt Adapter
Sonnet Echo Express Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis for PCIe Cards
Sonnet Echo Express Pro Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis for PCIe Cards
Sonnet Echo Express SE (3 variants)
Sonnet xMac mini Server
Sound Devices PIX-DOCK
Universal Audio Apollo Thunderbolt Option Card
Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo (2 variants)
Western Digital My Book VelociRaptor Duo