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RE: An ill-formed question

SPEED. If you were doing a lot of high resolution video editing, then you might see the benefit of Thunderbolt in terms of responsiveness.

I do a fair amount of audio editing, but there is little benefit from higher speed I/O since most of the files are small enough to be cached in the RAM memory several times over. This means that I can move the files between disk drives and even across a gigabit Ethernet without having to wait at all most times, even when making a backup. However, 100 Mbps Ethernet was noticeably slow for the audio work I was doing.

As to having active cables, this is really a connector issue more than anything else, electronics on one side of the connector vs. electronics on the other side. That's about it. If the connectors are bypassed by direct connection there is no difference.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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