by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/13/2012 2:02:00 PM
Posted in Trade Shows , CES , CES 2012 , Intel , Thunderbolt , Mac , Apple
Posted in Trade Shows , CES , CES 2012 , Intel , Thunderbolt , Mac , Apple
Since the launch of Thunderbolt the only cable supplier has been Apple. Given that no current Thunderbolt devices come with a Thunderbolt cable (save Apple's own Thunderbolt Display which comes with one for video input), anyone who wanted to use Thunderbolt had to pick up a cable at the Apple store for $50. Sumitomo Electric started shipping its Thunderbolt cables at the end of last year and Intel had a pair at CES this week. They are functionally identical to Apple's cable but come in a dark grey instead of white. No word on pricing unfortunately, although I do know that there's a definite push to drive the cable cost down this year.
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Nexus by cmircea on Friday, January 13, 2012
Where is the Galaxy Nexus review? It's two weeks overdue the promised date! :<
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There is polite ways about requesting information. This is not one of them.
I am sure Anand and his crew will get to it soon enough.
I am sure Anand and his crew will get to it soon enough.
RE: Nexus by kjboughton on Friday, January 13, 2012
Don't you have a book report you should be working on?
hmurchison by hmurchison on Friday, January 13, 2012
Come on man show proper netiquette. Off topic thread crapping is so 2005.
RE: Nexus by Kristian Vättö on Friday, January 13, 2012
From what I can see, it seems to be pretty much ready. However, Brian and Anand have had a lot to do at CES so that has pushed it. Should be out early next week at the latest, I guess. You can always ping Brian (@nerdtalker) in Twitter.
Ha! by kjboughton on Friday, January 13, 2012
"...I do know that there's a definite push to drive the cable cost down this year."
There's nothing to "drive down." The cost is manufacture one of these is probably already on the order of $0.25 or so. Initial tooling costs have already been allocated, otherwise it's just a couple strands of copper wire and an a jacket. Big whoop.
This is consumer price gouging at it's finest. Apple's been the only game in town up until now, which is why anyone who want's one must fork over 50 big ones. It's absolutely laughable to think it costs anywhere near this to make one. Look at it. It looks like a USB cable with a slightly different connector head.
There's nothing to "drive down." The cost is manufacture one of these is probably already on the order of $0.25 or so. Initial tooling costs have already been allocated, otherwise it's just a couple strands of copper wire and an a jacket. Big whoop.
This is consumer price gouging at it's finest. Apple's been the only game in town up until now, which is why anyone who want's one must fork over 50 big ones. It's absolutely laughable to think it costs anywhere near this to make one. Look at it. It looks like a USB cable with a slightly different connector head.
I presume you didn't know they're active cables with a transceiver on both ends. Y
RE: Ha! by kjboughton on Friday, January 13, 2012
You are correct, Sir.
I do say though...why put the transceivers in the cable, and not on the other sides of the interfaces??
I do say though...why put the transceivers in the cable, and not on the other sides of the interfaces??
They contain cable specific tuning for high speed. Also enable change to optic without changing ports.
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What happens if the board is certified but the peripheral isn't? BSODs apparently :-/
Hot plugging Thunderbolt devices will be supported under Windows on a certified board with certified peripherals
Time to try the Thunderbolt Display
and that's the peak, can't push anything higher than that.
933.54MB/s
@CheetohFingers no, Promise Pegasus R6 with four SSDs under Windows. Intel's SSD 910 is good for around 2000MB/s in the same test
@carpetbomberz four SSDs in RAID-0, just looking to max out the interface/device :)
@pmod sorry, that's Thunderbolt on Windows @nerdtalker is doing the 802.11ac testing, didn't mean to confuse :)
@GlennF nosir, megabytes per second (~7400Mbps) - Thunderbolt rocks :)
928MB/s
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