A gimmick? It's now included on some Apple laptops. Why are new things considered gimmicks? Seems unfair to me, as that word mostly has a negative connotation.
Sent from my iPad On Mar 19, 2011, at 9:53 AM, "Stan Zaske" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?? >> > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
