That's the exact trend I was about to comment on. If this was AMD's technology, it'd be the greatest thing since the scroll wheel. It gets old.
By the way, I hate the name Thunderbolt. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin > Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 8:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] Intel Thunderbolt (aka Light Peak) > > So, by your definition, any new tech is a gimmick. I guess you hate on > everyone except amd these days, huh? > > Sent from my iPad > > On Mar 19, 2011, at 9:05 PM, "Stan Zaske" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > >> > >> > >> 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/ > > > > > > -- > > Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
