In fact, the new Thunderbolt port appears identical to Mini DisplayPort. (USB 3.0 is just hitting the market in real quantities now.) Real-world performance will certainly be slower, as it is with USB 2.0 testing will be necessary to see how close to the theoretical 10 Gbps devices can get.Īpple says that Thunderbolt is based on PCI Express, the technology that links the high-performance components in a Mac, and DisplayPort, the display technology Apple has been using in the form of Mini DisplayPort jacks in recent Macs.

Performance-wise, Thunderbolt zooms at 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) in both directions, a huge improvement over the 480 megabits per second (Mbps) of USB 2.0 and 800 Mbps of FireWire 800, and a significant jump past USB 3.0’s 4.8 Gbps. (Light Peak was originally supposed to use fiber-optic cable this first release relies on copper wire, but has the same planned speed.) Thunderbolt connects both to high-resolution displays and high-performance data devices using the same interface. The aluminum unibody construction of the 13-inch, 15-inch, and 17-inch MacBook Pros remains the same.įrom a Light (Peak) Blue Sky - The marquee item in the new MacBook Pros is Thunderbolt, the first appearance in shipping hardware of an Intel I/O technology code-named Light Peak. Leaving presumably bigger news-iPad 2 and iOS 5?-for the March 2nd media event, Apple has freshened up its MacBook Pro family of laptops, utilizing next-generation CPUs and graphics processing, the extraordinarily high-speed Thunderbolt peripheral networking technology, and a new FaceTime HD video camera. #1624: Important OS security updates, rescuing QuickTake 150 photos, AirTag alerts while traveling.

#1625: Apple's 'Far Out' event, the future of FileMaker, free NMUG membership, Quick Note and tags in Notes, Plex suffers data breach.#1626: AirTag replacement battery gotcha, Kindle Kids software flaws, iOS 12.5.6 security fix.#1627: iPhone 14 lineup, Apple Watch SE/Series 8/Ultra, new AirPods Pro, iOS 16 and watchOS 9 released, Steve Jobs Archive.#1628: iPhone 14 impressions, Dark Sky end-of-life, tales from Rogue Amoeba.

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