New MacBook Pros have 10Gbit I/O
 

Fairly impressive stuff. PCI express transfer rates with up to 6 devices supported.

Apple - Thunderbolt: Next-generation high-speed I/O technology.

ohh...me like. I work with multi gig files a lot. Very cool...

Let me be the first:

"You're just an Apple Fanboy."

What do you intend to plug it into though?

That doesn't matter. What matters is that it CAN

Pretty cool, but can a laptop hard drive maintain that speed?

I was hoping for the rumored SSD hard drive for the OS only.

Ah, OK, that clears it up.

Oh yea, light peak. Will wait and see if that catches on, displacing USB will not be easy.

I never use USB for my external HDs - always FW800. The drive manufacturers will support this soon enough.

Maybe. Depends on the market. I heard the same thing about Microchannel and the Newton. USB 4.0 is optical and will probably be more widely adopted imo.

A standard backed by Intel and Apple isn't going to be a niche solution. Thunderbolt is basically PCI Express, and a bus-level I/O, so making stuff work with it is not a big engineering challenge.

So, it's "Compatible with existing DisplayPort devices"

Per Intel's site:
So it's adding functionality to DisplayPort? --cool.

...my 2+y/old Dell Laptop has DisplayPort. Nice to see Apple is finally/also getting on board with the standard.:cool:

"You can even daisy chain these items together"

so it's like HP-IB eh?

Yea, like Token ring.

I have nothing to add

Has been standard on Mac Laptops for 2+ years as well.

My solid state drive alone made my MAC operate like a light switch.

Since 2008, in fact. I think Island's source of computer information is something less than "fair and balanced."

Not sure AppleInsider is the most objective site, but they had the following to say in this article

So your display port is probably not going to work without an adapter.