Tag: Thunderbolt
Thunderbolt may be on its way to iOS, says Apple patent
The United States Patent and Trademark Office published three new Apple patents relating to Thunderbolt today. While there is substantial worry over what Apple’s patents...
Intel is hoping 2012 is the year of Thunderbolt
Go, greased lightning! Reports are coming in that April of 2012 will be Intel’s initial big push for industry-wide adoption of their best-in-class data transfer...
Multiple displays in a Thunderbolt daisy chain ‘severely’ limits throughput
James Galbraith over at Macworld has written up a fairly in-depth article on how multiple Thunderbolt devices daisy chained together affects performance of each device...
LaCie now selling Thunderbolt drives
If you like your portable hard drives fast — and let’s be honest, who doesn’t? — then you may want to check out the newly minted LaCie...
MacBook Air gets EFI update as Thunderbolt Displays get ready for shipment
What’s a major product release without having to patch a few software bundles here and some firmware there? Apple has just rolled out a MacBook...
Apple partially throttled Thunderbolt in new MacBook Air
Apple may be putting Thunderbolt in all of their machines these days, but not all of their machines are getting pure, unadulterated Thunderbolt. According to...
Apple may not be releasing a redesigned Mac Pro after all
Everyone and their brother pretty much agrees at this point that Apple’s planning on releasing updates to their entire lineup, minus the MacBook Pro and...
High costs slowing Thunderbolt and AirPlay adoption?
iLounge is reporting that high costs may be hampering Apple’s AirPlay and Thunderbolt from growing more quickly in the third-party market.
Sandy Bridge Mac Pros and Mac minis coming this August?
In a series of tweets, blogger Brian Tong claims that his sources told him that “all new” Mac minis and Mac Pros are coming in...
HP ‘not convinced yet’ to use Thunderbolt, set on USB 3.0
Xavier Lauwaert, worldwide marketing manager for desktops at HP, has indicated that the company isn’t interested in adding Thunderbolt technology to its offerings quite yet,...
Intel getting ready to release Thunderbolt dev kits
You might have a Thunderbolt port on that snazzy new MacBook Pro, but there’s probably not too much you can do with it—yet. Intel’s getting ready...
Apple is looking for a Thunderbolt firmware engineer
The technology may be less than a year old, but that hasn’t stopped Apple from moving quickly to get Thunderbolt into their products. According to...
Rumor: New Thunderbolt equipped iMacs to be released in May
Thunderbolt is on the way, and it may be coming to another one of Apple’s computers. According to AppleInsider, Apple’s preparing to release a brand...
Canon jumps on the Thunderbolt bandwagon, teases 10Gbps video cameras
If you ran out and bought a brand new MacBook Pro in hopes that Thunderbolt products would be forthcoming, it’ll probably please you to know...
What is Thunderbolt?
Apple recently introduced new MacBook Pro models, but in addition to the expected new Intel Sandy Bridge processors, another new feature was included in the...
Apple may have a giant head start until 2012 with Thunderbolt
Apple’s announcement of Thunderbolt today during their press conference is no longer major news, but Apple may have a year-long head start with the new...
Apple unleashes new MacBook Pros with Thunderbolt
As expected, Apple today has announced new MacBook Pros. All models ship with a Core i5 or i7, with quad-core processors showing up in the...