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Developed with Apple, looks promising, up to 10Gbbs. Looks like you'll be able to slap your laptop on the desk, plug in 1 cable, and be connected to external drives, displays, and networks, all daisy chained together.
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02-24-2011, 12:18 PM
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Hopefully this doesn't become another firewire. I'd love for there to be an industry wide standard cable/connector to replace USB, SATA, HDMI and every other cable known to man. Seems like it would be something that could only help, not hinder the industry.
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02-24-2011, 12:28 PM
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Originally Posted by NJGOAT
Hopefully this doesn't become another firewire. I'd love for there to be an industry wide standard cable/connector to replace USB, SATA, HDMI and every other cable known to man. Seems like it would be something that could only help, not hinder the industry.
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Firewire never went anywhere because apple demanded royalties. So the rest of the industry told them to shove their interface where the sun don't shine and developed royalty-free USB. |
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02-24-2011, 01:21 PM
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You have to hand it to apple. They just keep on pushing forward. One would think they want to be the leaders. :-)
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02-24-2011, 02:41 PM
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I've been reading reviews and am still not clear on the transfer rates, I've seen 10Gbbs and 10GBps, saw a video and the guy said 10GBps.
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02-24-2011, 09:24 PM
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That has to be 10 gigabits per second. I saw one article claim that thunderbolt was fast enough to let you copy over a HD movie in 30 seconds. So = 10k / 8 bits = 1.250 gigabytes x 30 seconds = 37.5 GBs, just about the size of a blu-ray movie.
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02-24-2011, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Infinite loop
That has to be 10 gigabits per second. I saw one article claim that thunderbolt was fast enough to let you copy over a HD movie in 30 seconds. So = 10k / 8 bits = 1.250 gigabytes x 30 seconds = 37.5 GBs, just about the size of a blu-ray movie.
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That's not really a practical application....
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02-24-2011, 09:48 PM
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I was just reading about this... and the security risks that this technology has...
It's not Master/slave like USB but Peer-to-Peer like Firewire. So any Thunderbolt device connected to the system has unrestricted access...
This is a good read on the subject:
Thunderbolt: A new way to hack Macs ? The Register |
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02-25-2011, 12:35 AM
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Originally Posted by plwhit
I was just reading about this... and the security risks that this technology has...
It's not Master/slave like USB but Peer-to-Peer like Firewire. So any Thunderbolt device connected to the system has unrestricted access...
This is a good read on the subject:
Thunderbolt: A new way to hack Macs ? The Register |
If someone has physical access to plug a device into your computer, they can pretty much do whatever they want anyway. |
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02-25-2011, 05:01 AM
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If someone has physical access to plug a device into your computer, they can pretty much do whatever they want anyway.
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