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I just got an Intel motherboard with a Thunderbolt port. The fact it has one was mostly seen as a negative for me, since it potentially opens up DMA attacks and I don't really have any use for it. As of now, I don't even have a way of testing if it works, and have no idea what to do with it. I've heard of people gluing theirs shut, but I figure there has to be something it's useful for, right? Other than a display port of course, though even that is useless to me right now.
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Originally posted by Ericg View PostFirewire and Thunderbolt hit the same problem, they're new and different....
Originally posted by Ericg View PostThe people who are gonna USE thunderbolt are the same people who used Firewire...
Technologically informed computer users who buy into Apple's marketing / hate Windows... Or in other words: Audio/Video guys. Thunderbolt will remain THEIR niche the same way Firewire did.
Even with USB 3.0 isn't it still only half the total band-width of thunderbolt? (unless this has changed?)...
< note: i use neither thunderbolt nor USB 3.0 devices, but do have USB 2.0, firewire 400 && firewire 800 based audio interfaces ... so i do have experience with those. firewire is *always* better than USB devices of the same type - in terms of speed / performance, stability and reliability . >
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Originally posted by ninez View PostNew? ...firewire dates back to the very late 80's or early 90's. Obviously, thunderbolt is somewhat new 2010 or 2011..? i can't remember off-hand the exact years...
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Originally posted by tga.d View PostI just got an Intel motherboard with a Thunderbolt port. The fact it has one was mostly seen as a negative for me, since it potentially opens up DMA attacks and I don't really have any use for it. As of now, I don't even have a way of testing if it works, and have no idea what to do with it. I've heard of people gluing theirs shut, but I figure there has to be something it's useful for, right? Other than a display port of course, though even that is useless to me right now.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostThunderbolt is dead. It won't see any adoption.
It is not royalty-free, so it cost much money.
Also it is Intel-owned with no third-party manufacturers, so you have to buy the circuits from Intel, no competition.
Also, USB 3 which is royalty-free is "good enough".
Lets just wait for USB 4.
Also Chromebook Pixel sucks, it costs very much, its expensive and only has 4 GB RAM and 32 or 64 GB SSD. So it is only good as a web browser.
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Originally posted by caryhartline View PostThere is very little need to go above 4GB of RAM at this point unless you like to open tons of big applications all at once which is not something 99% of people do. The (relatively)small amount of storage is because you're supposed to store everything in Google Drive. The display is what makes it so expensive. That's just what happens if you want a good display at the moment. I guess now you could say Google has the same "tax"(high-end hardware) that Apple does.
Example Windows developers who run Linux in a virtual machine.
Or Linux users that run Windows or another Linux guest.
For virtualization, you preferably do want more than 4 GB RAM.
Or if you're a developer doing Java or .NET then that can take quite much RAM.
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