Way faster than USB 3.0......but I don't think it will show up soon....but if it does, I will hop on it if it not too expensive to do so.
Sent from my iPad On Mar 18, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Bino Gopal <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface) > > So I've read the Wikipedia article but I'm still not sure I get *how* this is > going to change things exactly...is this basically only a faster means of > transferring data from external devices (like HDDs)? Is that all or are > there more use cases I'm not thinking of? > > And how do people feel this will compare to USB 3.0? Since I have neither of > them, it's an interesting question of which I'd rather have/use going > forward...thoughts? I know some people are saying HDD speeds will be the > bottleneck now, not the bus, so if so, what would be the advantage of one > over the other in practical, everyday terms? > > BINO > > P.S. And is it just me, or was the time to market for this *really* fast > compared to other new tech that gets announced and seems to take forever > before we see it in implementation?? >
