Hi Daniel, It turns out the cable is an "active cable" that has internal chips an firmware. This allows it to support incredible transfer speeds upward of 5 gigabits per second! The following article also mentions that the internal electronics means that current ports could be compatible with future cables that will use optical fibres rather than copper wires.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/06/29/apples_new_thunderbolt_cable_sports_internal_firmware_chips.html Cheers, Carlo On 2011-06-29, at 24:10, Daniel Kerr wrote: > > Thought those following the "Thunderbolt" updates may be interested in the > following. > > LaCie announced their drives a while back but no pricing or exact eta on > their shipping as yet. > <http://www.lacie.com/au/products/product.htm?id=10549> > > But Apple have released their RAID series drives with Thunderbolt ports. > Not "overly" cheap from $1169 for 4TB. > > You can read some of the info here (pricing in USD) > <http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/28/apple-thunderbolt-cable-and-promise-thu > nderbolt-raid-systems-hit-the-apple-store/> > > Or <http://tinyurl.com/4x4car8> > > And on the Apple Store (Au) here:- > <http://store.apple.com/au/search?find=pegasus&mco=Nzc1MjMwNg> > > And you can get a Thunderbolt cable for $55 :o) > > Enjoy > > Kind regards > Daniel > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Macintosh** > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
