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Thunderbolt ExpressCard

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Ageostrophic

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Jun 27, 2010
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I have a 2007ish MacBook Pro (MacBookPro4,1). Has anyone heard to a Thunderbolt capable ExpressCard that I could slip into my laptop? I'm thinking about updating my external hard drive and it just seems foolish to get a USB2 one.

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Considering the lack of Mac compatible USB 3.0 adapters as well as the lack of thunderbolt devices (all of which utilize high bandwidth) I can assure you that we WILL NOT see a thunderbolt expresscard. I'd wager to say that Ex34 is waning or even dead tech now, save for your interfaces such as the Apogee products or video applications.

And as mentioned above, the thunderbolt to pci-express adapter announced by magma has absolutely nothing to do with expresscard 34.
 
Yeah, I was afraid it might not happen. My laptop is getting a bit older now anyway. It's just tough to see this cool stuff come out and not be able to use it.
 
Ageostrophic said:
Yeah, I was afraid it might not happen. My laptop is getting a bit older now anyway. It's just tough to see this cool stuff come out and not be able to use it.
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Unless you use an SSD as an external, thunderbolt is "too fast" for a traditional platter HD, FW800 is about as fast as most external hard drives can reach.

It's not thunderbolt, that's for sure, but you wouldn't see a difference between the two anyway.
 
Ageostrophic said:
Yeah, I was afraid it might not happen. My laptop is getting a bit older now anyway. It's just tough to see this cool stuff come out and not be able to use it.
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USB2.0 isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

You likely wouldn't get thunderbolt speed from an express card anyway
 
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