Re:The technology inside Apple's $50 Thunderbolt cable
by dasil003 on Friday August 19, 2011 @01:06AM
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Your post is very entertaining, but let's bookmark and come back in 5 years.
The reason I don't buy your argument is because I think in practice Thunderbolt is going to be well more than twice as fast as either USB 3.0 or eSATA, and the smart cabling is a future-proofing engineering move that will make sense as drives and busses become faster. If that pans out, then Apple will be in good shape with this technology to not have to fuck with it for the next 5-10 years, and the pros will happily pay the premium.
As for the Lion hate, well, my biggest fear is that people eat it up and they are emboldened to move quickly to an App-Store-only model. Until that day though you still have a respectable Unix + The Best Commercial Apps OS that led so many geeks to Apple over the last decade.
The reason I don't buy your argument is because I think in practice Thunderbolt is going to be well more than twice as fast as either USB 3.0 or eSATA, and the smart cabling is a future-proofing engineering move that will make sense as drives and busses become faster. If that pans out, then Apple will be in good shape with this technology to not have to fuck with it for the next 5-10 years, and the pros will happily pay the premium.
As for the Lion hate, well, my biggest fear is that people eat it up and they are emboldened to move quickly to an App-Store-only model. Until that day though you still have a respectable Unix + The Best Commercial Apps OS that led so many geeks to Apple over the last decade.