It is a gimmick. You don't think I know it's now included into Applesauce
products? Really? Good first effort by Intel and Job's Mob. LOL Oh yeah,
Intel changed their minds and based it on copper instead of fiber. The
company any intelligent person loves to despise more than Intel itself.
LOL Or is that Microsoft?
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:30:09 -0500, Anthony Q. Martin
<[email protected]> wrote:
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.
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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??
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