I agree

yes

Sadly this is true, which is why I will avoid Thunderbolt as much as possible and use USB 3.0

How are you going to avoid Thunderbolt if the platform you want happens to have Thunderbolt?

Many motherboards today still come with Firewire ports, that doesn't mean you have to buy devices to plug into those ports just because.

Unless Intel integrates Thunderbolt natively in the chipset I doubt we'll see that many devices making use of it.

yeah, and wasn't intel hinting that they are going to actually push the optical implementation of lightpeak/thunderbolt sometime next year?
maybe intel is holding off on integration until they get closer to the optical implementation.

i guess we might hear about it at IDF later this year if intel so chooses to grace us with that info.
seriously starting to get tired of intel's secrecy tactics.

Let me guess... hmm.... Oh yeah, I won't use Thunderbolt connection even if its there!

Why would you "avoid" it? It's not like it detracts from any other aspect of the computer.

WTF?

Good job, Intel. Compound the widespread ignorance and FUD already surrounding Thunderbolt with this stupid maneuver.

They never learn. Last time around, Intel reps literally pretended not to know what Firewire was. When asked at SIGGRAPH when they were going to integrate it into their motherboards, they smugly retorted, "Isn't that some Apple thing?" This was about a decade ago, when there was no alternative to Firewire.

Now there is, and it's from Intel. But there simply not going to put it out.

Pathetic.

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