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Thunderbolt - how to use, and what it's for
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My favorite thing about thunderbolt is it can be used like any other port. Anything that can be plugged in as a PCI-e can be made to work for thunderbolt. External GPU's here we come!!!
Just like the iPhone, iPad, and iPod.
12 to 24 months? Technology? Do you live under a rock?
Just like quad core processors in the new mbp's?
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Huh? The person you quoted didn't mention these at all.
The original USB took this long to become popular, so did USB2.0
Again...huh?
Maybe you're trying to make some sort of point, but your examples are terrible.
Lightpeek/thunderbolt/whatever is a promising technology, and Apple is the first company to put it in a mass produced computer. They did it for bragging rights due to the fact that there are no mass-market peripherals that can use it right now. But that doesn't make the technology useless by any means, it's just a futureproofing accessory for now though.
Actually the spec currently calls for two lines for a total of 20Gbps full duplex. Of which it appears that one line is reserved for DisplayPort in the notebook models so you only get 10Gbps full duplex for devices.
It is much better tech than USB, hopefully it gains traction and takes off quickly.
It is much better tech than USB, hopefully it gains traction and takes off quickly.
One could argue that Firewire still isn't anything more than a niche connection protocol even after heavy backing by Apple and others.
My point was that people dismissed, and still do, innovations made by Apple every time they are released. The iPad, for example was dubbed "a big, pointless iPhone", and yet it is so much more (and sales/success have proved this).
He didn't mention "popular", he mentioned useful. As soon as devices are released I'll take 10gbps over anything else. Maybe you wouldn't though. It's not really useful.
It was speculated that mayhaps quadcore i7's would be included in the new update, yet that was dismissed by most as something Apple would do in a major revision of the macbook (physical changes). Hype hype hype. It runs wild, yet the technology is close enough to being implemented that apple put it in their new macbooks.
I see.
There are currently hundreds of USB 3 external drives that cannot take advantage of the 5Gb/s duplex speed because the maximum possible read/write of most drives, even SSDs is far lower.
I imagine the same will likely be true of the vast majority of TB-ready external storage released this year.
I imagine the same will likely be true of the vast majority of TB-ready external storage released this year.