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In Reply to: RE: An ill-formed question posted by Dynobot on July 9, 2012 at 06:44:30:
Cost to benefit ratio? What does it cost? To the consumer, having a Thunderbolt port doesn't cost much at all. All Macs have it built-in, some PC laptops have it, and every major motherboard manufacturer has announced boards with built-in Thunderbolt ports. Yes, it costs a little more, maybe $25 - $50.
Some benefits of Thunderbolt, not necessarily for audio, include:
1) It has the bandwidth to accommodate faster external storage, at least 2x of USB 3.0 today. The theoretical peak limit for USB 3.0 is ~640MB/s but actually somewhat less due to protocol overhead. Modern SSD and NAND flash modules are already achieving nearly 600MB/s in Read/Write performance which is bumping the limits of USB 3.0. If you were to stripe two SSDs for ~double the throughput, USB 3.0 would be the choke point, Thunderbolt would handle it. 50Gb/s Thunderbolt is already in the works at Intel slated for ~2015.
2) It will make HD video capture, editing, and transfers much less time consuming.
3) Thunderbolt is essentially a connection into the PCIe infrastructure which means just about any PCI-e card can be accommodated via Thunderbolt, via a Thunderbolt enabled chassis or dock. Lets say you have an Ultrathin lightweight laptop that you carry for travel but need high performance graphics and connectivity at your desk. A Thunderbolt docking station could tie into high performance graphics cards and other devices when your laptop is docked.
Here's an interesting product that takes the Mac Mini and allows it to connect to PCI-e cards via the Thunderbolt port:
Another product that extends the Thunderbolt port for laptops:
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Follow Ups
- Some uses for Thunderbolt - AbeCollins 09:27:24 07/09/12 (12)
- How does this apply to audio ??? - EmailTim 19:23:13 07/10/12 (1)
- RE: How does this apply to audio ??? - AbeCollins 08:15:29 07/11/12 (0)
- $20-50 for the chip but don't forget the cable... $50 to $850 /nt - bwb 12:08:04 07/09/12 (9)
- "Thunderbolt very robust—signal is cleaned up by the cable" - AbeCollins 12:57:03 07/09/12 (8)
- signal is cleaned up by the cable - fmak 08:07:15 07/10/12 (5)
- RE: signal is cleaned up by the cable - Mercman 09:40:11 07/10/12 (4)
- PRECISELY - Some folks should do less gum flapping & more reading........ - AbeCollins 14:35:47 07/10/12 (0)
- RE: signal is cleaned up by the cable - fmak 10:22:08 07/10/12 (2)
- RE: signal is cleaned up by the cable - Tony Lauck 11:41:50 07/10/12 (1)
- Why? - fmak 12:48:09 07/10/12 (0)
- Money to be made here.... - Tromatic 20:20:48 07/09/12 (1)
- I dunno... - AbeCollins 21:47:14 07/09/12 (0)
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