Comments on: VAIO Hybrid PC Featuring Sony’s Thunderbolt Port? http://www.slashgear.com/vaio-hybrid-pc-featuring-sonys-thunderbolt-port-17152491/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Sat, 12 May 2012 04:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/vaio-hybrid-pc-featuring-sonys-thunderbolt-port-17152491/#comment-113837 Anonymous Tue, 17 May 2011 22:30:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=152491#comment-113837 A USB connection for an data intensive I/O port makes a hell of a lot more sense than a Mini Displayport connector. It’s hard enough trying to find a Display Port Connector, but an MDP? Nobody outside of Apple’s notebooks use it. And I’ve never seen a monitor with the exception of Apple’s heinously crappy Cinema Displays with one either.

Special AMD cards use them, but you have to use an MDP to DP adapter just to get it work with any decent monitor.

Sony was smart on this one. 

]]> By: Zeorai http://www.slashgear.com/vaio-hybrid-pc-featuring-sonys-thunderbolt-port-17152491/#comment-113825 Zeorai Tue, 17 May 2011 20:58:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=152491#comment-113825 Both have their advantages and disadvantages.  I wonder if Sony’s use via USB makes it backwards compatible with older USB devices.  That seems to be the idea, but it’s not entirely clear in the post.  Personally I tend to like Apple’s single port implementation that way you only need to have one type of cable.  I was very happy to hear when the EU regulated that all charges would be micro USB.  Finally an end to the proprietary ac adapters.  A single cable/connector simplifies a great deal of necessary connectivity.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/vaio-hybrid-pc-featuring-sonys-thunderbolt-port-17152491/#comment-113808 Anonymous Tue, 17 May 2011 18:37:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=152491#comment-113808 who needs thunderbolt, we got CLOUD computing and wireless data transfer. thunderbolt came out too late imo. vaio is always fo over priced as well.

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