Hello, I do not think there are many PC (Windows, at least) ready peripherals for Thunderbolt, yet--everything that's out seems to be Mac-specific so far. So, I'm guessing you're looking at sharing peripherals with co-workers who do have Thunderbolt-equipped Macs? You might want to make sure the peripherals you intend to use have driver support on the Windows side.
On my W510, my highest bandwidth operation is backups, which occur via the built-in eSATAp port. It also has a couple of USB 3.0 ports, but like more of those I think they are on a 1-lane PCIe interface, and do not provide the full-bandwidth that that USB spec allows. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 07:00 PM 9/14/2012, you wrote:
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:48:29 +0000 From: Stuart Biggar <[email protected]> Subject: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad(s) with Thunderbolt port? To: Thinkpad Mailing List <[email protected]> Message-ID: <823216aa177d7d44ab431e36b09fb63b13e6b...@email.optics.arizona.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" I'm thinking about purchasing a new notebook. Some expensive (double the cost of the well optioned notebook) software now recommends an i7 CPU, lots of RAM and a separate GPU with min of 1 GB of RAM. So I was thinking of something along the lines of a W530 but I wonder if anything from Lenovo has a Thunderbolt port for video and PCIe expansion? I think certain T430s models (i7) do but I don't see it for a W530. Anyone know for sure? Or better, if a W series with Thunderbolt will appear soon? Some coworkers are quite happy with MacBooks with an Apple thunderbolt display (video, Firewire, USB, and gigabit ethernet in the display). However the MacBooks don't have a TPM chip and we are getting pressure to use an encrypted filesystem (Bitlocker for example) on Windows 7 Enterprise and that seems easier on a notebook with a TMP chip and appropriate bios. Thanks for any advice, pointers, brickbats, ?.
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