New MacBook Pros have 10Gbit I/O

[techweenie]

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

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

[nostatic]

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

[techweenie]

Let me be the first:

"You're just an Apple Fanboy."

[Scott R]

What do you intend to plug it into though?

[kaisen]

Originally Posted by Scott R

What do you intend to plug it into though?

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

[Neilk]

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

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

[Scott R]

Originally Posted by kaisen

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

Ah, OK, that clears it up.

[techweenie]

What is ThunderBolt and What Can You do with it? | Notebooks.com

[Scott R]

Originally Posted by techweenie

What is ThunderBolt and What Can You do with it? | Notebooks.com

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

[nostatic]

Originally Posted by Scott R

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.

[Scott R]

Originally Posted by nostatic

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.

[techweenie]

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.

[island911]

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

Per Intel's site:

* Dual-channel 10 Gbps per port
* Bi-directional
* Dual-protocol (PCI Express* and DisplayPort*)
* Compatible with existing DisplayPort devices
* Daisy-chained devices
* Electrical or optical cables
* Low latency with highly accurate time synchronization
* Uses native protocol software drivers
* Power over cable for bus-powered devices

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.

[RWebb]

"You can even daisy chain these items together"

so it's like HP-IB eh?

[Scott R]

Originally Posted by RWebb

"You can even daisy chain these items together"

so it's like HP-IB eh?

Yea, like Token ring.

[red-beard]

I have nothing to add

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by island911

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.

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

[EarlyPorsche]

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

[techweenie]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

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

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

[Neilk]

Originally Posted by island911

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.

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

By pairing the new interconnect with Mini DisplayPort (which Apple developed but has openly released as part of the DisplayPort specification), Thunderbolt should also help drive adoption of the Mini DisplayPort connector as well, which so far has largely been limited to Apple's own equipment. Other DisplayPort monitors from companies like Dell use a "full sized" connector that looks similar to USB, but which serves no value other than being larger.

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