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A little Light Peaking out?

Avatar Euan Williams
CNet news is increasingly reporting rumours that Intel's Light Peak connection technology is ready for the consumer with an Intel announcement tomorrow, Thursday.

Suggestions are that it may be included in a new MacBook Pro and-or iPod.

See: CNet on Light Peak announcement.

Re: A little Light Peaking out?

Avatar Euan Williams
Happy Days! This from Apple's press release this afternoon about the new MacBook Pro:

"MacBook Pro is the first computer on the market to include the groundbreaking Thunderbolt I/O technology. Developed by Intel with collaboration from Apple, Thunderbolt enables expandability never before possible on a notebook computer. Featuring two bi-directional channels with transfer speeds up to an amazing 10Gbps each, Thunderbolt delivers PCI Express directly to external high performance peripherals such as RAID arrays, and can support FireWire and USB consumer devices and Gigabit Ethernet networks via adapters. Thunderbolt also supports DisplayPort for high resolution displays and works with existing adapters for HDMI, DVI and VGA displays. Freely available for implementation on systems, cables and devices, Thunderbolt technology is expected to be widely adopted as a new standard for high performance I/O."
Apple MacBook press release

Re: A little Light Peaking out?

Avatar Euan Williams
For a demo of Thunderbolt in action see this:
Engadget on Thunderbolt demo

Re: A little Light Peaking out?

Avatar Euan Williams
It seems that by 2015 the new Thunderbolt technology (Light Peak) that has so far appeared in the new MacBook Pro may be spreading to all kinds of devices and at much faster (5x) speeds.

See this MacWorld article for a non-tech summary.
 
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