It's just a gimmick at the present with great promise for the future.
Imagine having that kind of speed with future SSD's capable of utilizing
it. This is precisely the reason Intel has been very slow to adopt USB 3
in their chipsets. They want to bypass and supplant USB 3 entirely.
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:28:53 -0500, 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??
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