lol the 13" macbook pro has a lower resolution screen than the 13" macbook air, how the fuck is that PRO?
Anyone seen new Apple thunderbolt?
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Lol, that's what I get for quickly scanning over a badly worded Wikipedia section for keywords to get specifics.
Anyway, the point remains that the hardware is still far behind fully utilizing 10gbps. Yeah, I can see using that port to extend many devices to work at their full capacity, but that's only removing a small bottleneck for data-intensive applications. HDs currently aren't reading and writing even 1gbps yet.
This. Your "6 Gb/s" platter hard drive doesn't get anywhere close to that speed, it's a purely theoretical speed. As evidence in SSD's being about the 2Gb/s mark.
I also don't think external video (PCIe) cards are going to be quite feasible yet with this either, as most videos cards are x16, which means they require for V2 8 GB/s (64 Gb/s), and for the new V3 it'll be 16 GB/s (128 Gb/s).
It smells like smoke and mirrors so that Apple can sell you some of their now "proprietary" cables at a very nice markup for the next year. Don't let this little port sway your decision, it would have been way smarter to go with USB 3.0.
Finally, a new proprietary standard that isn't backwards compatible with any of our existing devices. I was afraid that I would have to use USB 3.0 which works with and is faster than my current hard drives. There's nothing I hate more than using open standards that aren't controlled by apple.