About Thunderbolt, the new Macbook connection

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About Thunderbolt, the new Macbook connection

Hey guys, what do you think about Thunderbolt?

Intel Realeased today because the new Macs are going to be introduced soon and they will use this technology…
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/02/24/thunderbolt-technology-the-fastest-data-connection-to-your-pc-just-arrived

It will have the same conector as the Display Port and will be able to transfer data up to 10 Gpbs :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

One thing that I didn’t heard a mention was about power…
It will have the same power issues as USB does?
Can we plug lots of devices with a hub and all of them will have enough power to run smoothly?

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Awesome!

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i reading up about it right now and im really impressed. One of my close friends does a lot of video production and thunderbolt is going to be a god send for him.

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more info on Thunderbolt

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Also, if you have not been keeping up with the technology, it is hotpluggable.

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or here http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thunderbolt/index.htm

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Would be nice if we could be able to use a USB 2.0 hub and with all his ports working at full speed and with no power issues :smiley:

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^this.

It’s pretty cool but I’ll keep my mbp for another year, I don’t NEED it right now.

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I see this being a huge benefit for people with HD cameras, but am I wrong or is there no cameras out there that support this technology? For early adopters I think this is a pretty meaningless feature until other products can catch up and even then how much will that added feature cost on new products?

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Lots of big name audio manufacturers will no doubt jump on this new standard purely because of the throughput. Don’t know if it will end up in DJ soundcards soon, but the big studio equipment will adopt it quickly I believe. It could be really awesome, cause they say it can scale up to 100gb/s.

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It’s cool, although I doubt we’ll see use for it in the DJ realm.

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Wouldn’t it be awesome if the new NI sound cards came with the new thunderbolt. It would be even awesomer of you could just switch cables and it automatically detected what kind of port it was plugged into.

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Here’s a great article and video showing one of possibilities with this technology:

The video really does a great job in showing it’s potential. This IS the future and it looks awesome.

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Your not going to have devices that have Light Peak connections, unless your talking about 10Gbps network adapters, or another similar peripheral device that is going to require ALL of that throughput.

More logically, you are going to have multiple USB port hubs that communicate over Light Peak with 0 added latency.

So you will have a light peak hub with a number of USB plugs, and depending on the manufacturer obviously, all kinds of other peripheral connections that can share the 10Gbps, like say a couple FireWire ports, and an eSATA port for good measure.

All connected to a single Light Peak hub on you computing device. And I can see in the future having multiple Light Peak ports on a single Laptop as well.

This is going to make laptop-to-device connection compatibility vastly more simple. And is going to eliminate “connection types” from the buying decision process, as Light Peak/ThunderBolt will support all peripheral connection types.

It really is going to usher in a new era of peripheral technology.

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Are their any products currently in the pipeline that are going to use thunderbolt??

If so which ones??

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most the companies are busy developing usb 3.0 drivers at the moment. There will be a few companies working with intel to bring out a couple of devices. Im guessing some sort of NAS device a solid state harddrive maybe some video cameras.

Release dates. I would have at a guess you will see a handfull in the second half of this year, next year a few more not mass’s tho. Depends how many laptop manufactures add boards with light peak on.

There seems to be no laptop boards with light peak on as current apart from those in apples products. So apple will be the only ones with lightone laptops probly till the fall of this year.

We should be seeing a fair few usb 3.0 devices this year and next year the flood gates should open.

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Right i’ll start off by saying i am not wanting to turn this into another mac vrs pc thread or anti thunderbolt thread.

But wouldnt it have made more sense to put usb 3.0 in the new macs??

And since im looking for a mac at the moment what happens when 3.0 comes out?? will it work with this generation of macs??

Please and thanks

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The future of controllers… I CAN SEE IT NOW 50 deck control!!! =.= jk
but this looks way too good to pass up on for home servers

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not sure if usb 3.0 will work with it at the moment will in the future. However you will need to buy a nice shinny apple adapter for it.

I am not sure about this but i think as the port is apples mini display port shape. that mac will have a differnt connector to everybody else light peak devices. As this is a patented port

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So far, products from LaCie and Promise Technology are coming out very soon:

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Other manufacturers that are on board are Avid, AJA, Apogee, Blackmagic, Universal Audio, and Western Digital.

You can imagine connecting your portable hard drive, a HD television and more, using just a single high-speed Thunderbolt port. These ports and other devices are expected to become readily available by 2012 on regular Windows PCs.

As for why Apple didn’t add USB 3.0 on the MBP; Thunderbolt(Light Peak) is more of an universal super high speed port. Meaning, with this one port, you can have a USB 3.0 device, a Firewire HD, and HD monitor all hooked up simultaneously. The only reason Apple got the jump on this port over PCs is their relationship with Intel. When Apple decided to have Intel make all of the chips for their computers, Intel promised Apple would get the cutting edge stuff first. Intel has always wanted to work with Apple, so this was an easy deal for them.