Thunderbolt

127 'Thunderbolt' stories February 2011 - April 2011

Matrox announces 7 Thunderbolt products

Seth Weintraub Apr 10 2011 - 4:32 pm PT

We’re getting some information out of NAB that Matrox just announced it will be first to market with 7 products on built on Thunderbolt including an adapter that will allow all older MXO family products to work with Thunderbolt enabled Macs.

Update: Matrox just updated its Facebook Page with this:

Exiting News from Matrox just released at NAB: Thunderbolt support for all existing and new MXO2 Products! Full Connectivity with all platforms for video playback, capture and streaming, on laptops or desktops (PC & MAC). Thunderbolt adapter can be purchased separately for existing MXO2 Owners, or can be bundled with any new MXO2 Product.

Expand
Expanding
Close

Future iOS 30-pin adapters to connect to Thunderbolt, USB3?

Seth Weintraub Apr 5 2011 - 1:57 pm PT

0 Comments

Future iOS adapters may work with USB 3 and DisplayPort/Thunderbolt if we read Patently Apple‘s latest finding right. It isn’t immediately clear if this will be backward compatible with today’s 30-pin connectors but it would make sense. Schematic below:

Expand
Expanding
Close

iFixit tears down the new MacBook Pros

Seth Weintraub Feb 24 2011 - 8:50 pm PT

0 Comments

The iFixit MacBook Pro Quad-Core Intel i7-2630QM Mobile Processor (labeled as 2V041112A0127) isn’t chock full of surprises but here’s what they found:

Wireless is Broadcom BCM4331
Intel BD82HM65 Platform Controller Hub

AMD Radeon HD 6490M GPU (labeled as AMD 216-00809000)
Quad-Core Intel i7-2629M Mobile Processor (labeled as 2V041112A0127)
Broadcom BCM57765B0KMLG Integrated Gigabit Ethernet and Memory Card Reader Controller
Intel L051NB32 EFL (we assume this is the Thunderbolt port controller) – pictured below
Parade PS8301 U08FUC
TDK 6T213HF 1045 H

Expand
Expanding
Close

First Thunderbolt products already available from LaCie and Promise

Seth Weintraub Feb 24 2011 - 12:39 pm PT

0 Comments

LaCie is one of the first Light Peak partners to announce a Thunderbolt Drive with their Little Big Disk SSDs which promise to deliver absurd data speeds. Speaking of Promise, they also have a Thunderbolt RAID device in the works, the very same one that Apple posted on their Thunderbolt page (below) which appears to be on the beefier side.

Neither have prices or shipping dates but if you have to ask how much these cost…

Expand
Expanding
Close

Apple updates MacBook Pros

Seth Weintraub Feb 24 2011 - 5:57 am PT

0 Comments

Apple today updated its line of MacBook Pros. We’ll not tell you more than visiting the site. Press release follows.

Expand
Expanding
Close

A good demonstration of Light Peak/Thunderbolt

Seth Weintraub Feb 23 2011 - 12:28 pm PT

1 Comment

What I don’t immediately understand is how this is going to work with my current MacBook Pro/monitor setup. It would seem that if I got a new MBP and a Thunderbolt external hard drive that the hard drive would have two Thunderbolt ports and I could daisy chain them, still using my current monitor? Or do I have to buy a new monitor that understands Thunderbolt? Anyone?

Also, while we are on the subject, this new cable would allow you to put your noisy Mac Pro in a basement/closet somewhere and just run a cable up through the floor to your monitor/keyboard/trackpad/peripherals.

Now that that is in your head, imagine what a company of 5,000 could do with this tech (after some serious rewiring).

Expand
Expanding
Close

Is this the new MacBook Pro Thunderbolt port?

Seth Weintraub Feb 23 2011 - 4:22 am PT

0 Comments

In the New MacBook Pro leaked box picture it said that the Thunderbolt port was also the Mini DisplayPort. So that makes the below picture a bit more manageable on the brain. Notice the Thunderbolt is where the Display port is/used to be:

(click twice for full sized image)

We’re still trying to wrap our heads around this. Will there be a new MiniDisplayPort switch/cable that connects to your monitor and then connects to other devices? Discuss below…

Expand
Expanding
Close