To be honest it’s hard to sometimes believe everything that Apple says since so much of what they are as a business is marketing but the I/O Thunderbolt is definitely the talk of the town right now.
Is it truly “revolutionary” as they are saying it is or is that marketing hype too?
Will you be the first on the block to own one of the new MacBook Pros that sport it? Do tell.
d3ft punk says
I don’t think this is going to go like USB did for the iMac back in the 90s. Does anyone you know use FireWire? I think not.
Ron Gehrke II says
I can see where if the peripherals existed, I could currently implement this technology. I am recording 32 channels simultaneously over Firewire from my digital board. I would like to be recording that to an external firewire drive (or even firewire raid) while at the same time using the computer that is recording to process live audio plugins on multiple audio streams which it sends back to the board. That requires a lot of bandwidth.
For the home user, Thunderbolt may not be “revolutionary” for sometime; however, as all of our media continues to move towards digital copies, the need for high-speed transfers will become necessary.
Also, I serve all my media off of firewire RAIDs and back-up my data the same way. Thunderbolt combined with faster storage devices will make these task far quicker. This is especially important on my laptop where I do not want and cannot always stay in one place to wait for my backup to finish.
Imagine restoring a system from a disk image in a matter of a few minutes.
I see many great uses. Will I buy a new Macbook right away? Depends on how much I can sell my old one for.