Thunderbolt Peripherals
Like USB and Firewire peripherals before it, Thunderbolt peripherals promise super-fast I/O and plug-and-play simplicity — just much, much faster. When Apple upgraded their MacBook Pro line of laptops last month, they also introduced Thunderbolt, the latest high-speed way to connect peripherals to your computer. Whether it becomes a widely used standard (like USB) or a [...]
What’s New
Are desktops dead?
An interesting note about Apple’s hardware announcements yesterday. While all their laptops – including the ultra thin MacBook Air – include Thunderbolt ports, the newly upgraded Mac Pro does not. The lone desktop model included a speed bump and an option for dual 6-core Intel Xeon E5645 processors. But with all that processing power, no [...]
PC Motherboards with Thunderbolt are starting to roll out
It looks like the floodgates are starting to open for Intel motherboards with Thunderbolt. That means we should start to see more PC’s coming with Thunderbolt as part of their standard configuration, which in turn will (hopefully) help increase the market for Thunderbolt peripherals and drive down the overall cost. Intel’s latest desktop motherboard includes [...]
Connect PCIe Cards via Thunderbolt
Here’s a pretty cool idea. Fresh from this week’s NAB show, the mLogic’s mLink expansion chassis will allow you to connect your PCIe adapter cards to your iMac or even more interesting, your MacBook Pro. Cool things like video capture cards, RAID controllers, tuner cards and the like can now be used on your MacBook. [...]
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The LaCie 2big quadruple interface professional 2-disk RAID delivers fast speed, large capacity and data security. With eSATA 3Gbits, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0, it provides complete universal compatibility with any PC or Mac. The easy-to-use 2big Quadra comes with two extractable, lockable and hot-swappable disks for a user-controlled solution. With four [...]
G-RAID With Thunderbolt 4000GB HD
Professional High-Performance Dual-Drive Storage System G-RAID with Thunderbolt, designed specifically for professional content creation applications, features the most powerful, flexible I/O technology ever. At double the data transfer rates of USB 3.0 and over 12 times faster than Firewire 800, no other PC I/O interface can match the raw speed of Thunderbolt now available in G-Technology’s [...]
LaCie Dual ESATA Thunderbolt Hub
LaCie′s Dual ESATA Thunderbolt hub allows you to connect to eSATA drives to the Thunderbolt port on your computer. This allows you to take advantage of the drives you already own, or perhaps purchase an inexpensive eSTATA drive to beef up your available storage. The hub also lets you daisy chain additional hubs and connect [...]
Apple MacBook Pro 15-Inch Laptop with Retina Display
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