Comments on: Apple Thunderbolt official

By: Wottshisname

Wottshisname — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:40:00 +0000

Apple will provide strong encouragement for other vendors to adopt Intel’s Thunderbolt when the iDevices support the technology. Copying HD video (or even a quantity of audio) can be very tedious. With Thunderbolt? Bang! Done. :-)

By: weberc2

weberc2 — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:48:07 +0000

USB 3.0 has a theoretical maximum around 5Gbps. You’re comparing Apple’s shiny new specification against an old version of USB. Additionally, on which devices will you be enjoying your Thunderbolt technology? Currently, I’m unaware of anything that bottlenecks at the USB3.0 specification and I doubt there will be much that will reach Thunderbolt’s theoretical maximum, at least in this refresh cycle. Would have been better off supporting the USB specification for another several years until the tech catches up.

I hope for your sake you like to carry around a USB 3.0 to Thunderbird adapter. But if you have enough for an MBP you can have your lackey carry it around for you. :p

By: Damien Lobb

Damien Lobb — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:10:00 +0000

Sorry, altho your claim about Apple making Mini DisplayPort and licensinging it is correct, your comment about USB being first shipped with Apple is completely false!

(From USB wikipedia page)
“The USB is a standard for peripheral devices. It began development in 1994 by a group of seven companies: Compaq, DEC, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC and Nortel.”

I had a Dell with USB back in 1997, first Macs with USB were the iMacs released in 1998.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:08:00 +0000

Really? How about doing some research before you rag:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_port
Mini DisplayPort (mDP) is a standard announced by Apple in the fourth quarter of 2008. Shortly after announcing the Mini DisplayPort, Apple announced that it would license the connector technology with no fee. The following year, in early 2009, VESA announced that Mini DisplayPort would be included in the upcoming DisplayPort 1.2 specification.

Not a fan heh, Not a fan of USB either since that was first shipped on Apple?

Not a fan of 10 GIGAbits/sec? Yeah stick with that USB 400 Mb/sec why don’t ya.

By: geolemon

geolemon — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:24:00 +0000

While it sounds somewhat cool for versatility, it’s another Apple-trying-to-make-a-proprietary-port-happen effort, meaning there will be “Apple accessories” that plug into this, and then “Accessories that conform to the standards of the world” for the rest of us.

Apple has quite the ego, and seems to like limiting people to
1) things built specifically for their ports, or
2) forcing people to Rube-Goldberg port/adapter/accessory solutions that needlessly cost extra money on top of throwing another component in the path.

I’m not a fan of this, just like I wouldn’t be a fan of fancy whiz-bang lugnuts on my car that required a special tool or adapter – that my mechanic might not have. The non-standard aspects inherently nullifies many of the hyped advantages of the proprietary port.

By: geolemon

geolemon — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:24:00 +0000

By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:59:00 +0000

People don’t have a problem with the name Thunderbolt? Lightning comes in bolts… Not thunder. Thunder comes in claps. Sheesh! Stupid marketing team and shame on the even “stupider” public for buying into what’s fed to them.