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Thunderbolt: One Year Later

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Posted 10 February 2012 - 01:56 PM

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Posted 10 February 2012 - 03:48 PM

$50 for a thunderbolt cable is pathetic. I could buy a good 3.5" USB 3.0 hard drive enclosure for the same price, including the cable, and get the same performance. Sure, external GPUs actually need something like thunderbolt. But for most people, for storage purposes, USB 3.0 suffices. I'm considering getting a usb 3.0 enclosure for my backup drive. My 2 year old motherboard has a USB 3 port. However, I can't say the same thing about Thunderbolt.

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Posted 10 February 2012 - 03:52 PM

Can anyone say "Appletax"?

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Posted 10 February 2012 - 04:04 PM

When HDMI first came out, cables were also expensive. When Thunderbolt is more common on computers, prices will drop, just like they always do. For people who need Thunderbolt today, for uses like external SSD raid or uncompressed/multiple video feeds, the cable price isn't a consideration.

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Posted 10 February 2012 - 04:13 PM

LaCie should release Thunderbolt drives across their line and particularly for the LaCie d2 Quadra Quadruple and LaCie Rugged Triple.

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Posted 10 February 2012 - 07:19 PM

The problem here is that companies are waiting on prices to drop before entering the market. Prices WON'T drop without the supply. That is a key component. If Apple/Intel cannot convince manufacturers that it is worth the extra effort NOW, then TB will likely end up pulling a Firewire. Great technology, but never affordable, and never truly seeing its full potential.

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Posted 10 February 2012 - 08:32 PM

waldojim, on 10 February 2012 - 07:19 PM, said:

Spot on with that statement. Right now there is very little need in the market for such expensive peripherals. The problem TB is going to run into is the same as firewire..... the USB standard that is out is "good enough" for the uses of probably 95% of the people out there right now. With the USB 3.0 standard, most peripherals won't even use that bandwidth, and are a lot cheaper AND are available now. The best technology isn't always the one that "wins"................

Just my opinion......YMMV......