It's basically daisy chainable PCI-Express over a long run single cable which does double duty as Displayport.
Basically you can hook up just about anything over thunderbolt. On 18 Mar 2011, at 17:28, Bino Gopal 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?? >
