Firewire never really took off. I do not see why apple is so kean to release there own protocol that has massive patents on, so hardly any pc manufactures add this to there products and falls down just like firewire.
I understant there are advantages of having a totally hardware based system however it is twice the speed of usb 3.0 at ten gig per second. but usb 3.0 is 4.8 gig. so a 50 gig music collection will take ten seconds to transfer but with thunderbolt it will take 5. Who needs that speed on there laptop.
I cannot see people like dell and hp going for this when usb 3.0 is somthing the average consumer will understand. I think this is a big waste of money for apple and intel.
Could be usefull for video mixing with a box like a sound card that did all the processing and took the strain off the laptop. However usb 3.0 would be quick enuf. 0.2 seconds to load up an entire film in .avi format about the same for a hd music vid
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