The MacBook Air's graphics capabilities make it too wimpy to play any proper games on out of the box — but there is a way to beef things up. Read More >>
You can officially stop bragging about how fast your fancy new USB 3.0 flash drive is. At the Computex show in Taipei, Intel was showing off this hacked-together prototype of a dedicated Thunderbolt 128GB flash drive boasting data transfer speeds of 10 Gbit/s, or about twice as fast as USB 3.0's max. And now that Thunderbolt 2 has been introduced, waiting around for large files to copy to your flash drive could be a thing of the past. Read More >>
Intel has officially announced that the next generation of Thunderbolt, previously codenamed Falcon Ridge, will be called... wait for it... Thunderbolt 2. Lame name, sadly — but it still promises to be amazing. Read More >>
Thunderbolt's makin' like greased lighting. Intel has introduced the newest revision of the interface and it will be capable of 20Gbps in both directions (as opposed to the previous 10). In other words, fast enough to transfer and play 4K video simultaneously. And it's all backwards compatible with old ports and cables to boot. Read More >>
Thunderbolt has arrived on the PC after being exclusive to the Macintosh platform for more than a year. With its promise of 10Gb/s‑per‑channel throughput, what self-respecting power user wouldn't opt for a Thunderbolt-based external backup solution? Well, before you get too excited, let's compare T-bolt point-by-point with its natural competitor, USB 3.0. After all, there's more to a technology than pure performance, as we found out. Read More >>
Featured comment by theran24:
"Thunderbolt PCIE enclosures already exist, the main issue right now is driver support (not only with GPUs but other PCIe devices too)." More »
The rumourmongers are at it again. It looks like supplies of Apple's monster, £900 27-inch Thunderbolt display are selling out across the US, and stocks are even running low in the UK too. Does this mean Apple's about to spit out a new, super-skinny iMac-like display? Read More >>
Featured comment by Kauzion:
"This screen isn't just for Macs, it's just a monitor.
But for us as consumers, it'd suck at games and movies would need to be up-scaled or black-b..." More »
USB data transfer is about to get a hell of a lot faster. The USB Promoter Group is rolling out SuperSpeed USB, a supplement to USB 3.0 due out later this year that should surge your speeds two-fold. Read More >>
Featured comment by Spazturtle:
""10 Gbps USB data rate, which is the same as Thunderbolt."
No its not, Thunderbolt [1] is 100Gbps in both directions, its the current cables that onl..." More »
I can't have been the only one who saw the potential for the Thunderbolt connection as the one cable to rule them all into your laptop, but it's taken so damn long to realise that. Now, finally, Matrox has made it happen with it's new DS1 dock. One Thunderbolt cable in; DVI/HDMI, Ethernet, USB 2 and 3.0, and headphone out, plus a mic port too. Brilliant. Read More >>
Featured comment by Dr.Galactus:
"Ditto, have a firewire DAC and multiple firewire drives, most of those have eSATA so will probably just grab the TB>eSATA jobby which would result ..." More »
If your computer has a Thunderbolt drive, odds are it's been pretty neglected. Some external storage options are good, but nothing is a no-brainer. Until now, that is. LaCie's vivid orange drive is the best way to back up files, superfast. Read More >>
Featured comment by Lord Mewington:
"£170 for a 120GB SSD, OUCH, especially when you can get the same sized version for at least £50, this is one heck of a premium for an almost useless..." More »
Now this is what we were hoping for from Thunderbolt. LaCie just stuck a Thunderbolt port on its USB 3.0 Rugged series of external drives, meaning it's now a tiny, indestructible speed monster. Read More >>
We'll find out later today, but rumours surrounding Apple's new "Lightning" dock connector seem to suggest it'll be USB3.0, not Thunderbolt, which would make perfect sense for Windows-using iPhone-wielders the world over. Lightning quick syncs, but wide compatibility? Yes, please. Read More >>
Featured comment by theran24:
"Whilst this would be good news for charging I doubt you'd see transfer speeds much faster, if any, than USB 2.0 speeds." More »
The cloud's great, but sometimes you still need fast, humongous local storage. How fast and humongous? How about, say, 2TB at 10,000RPM with TWO Thunderbolt ports. Read More >>
Thunderbolt was one of the killer features last year. 10 gigabits! But since then, there have been a few Thunderbolt products, and a few comically absentee ones, but it feels like most of us have never even used the port—Mini Displayport double duty notwithstanding. Anyone getting actual use out of the thing, or is it as abandoned as it feels? Read More >>
Featured comment by Spectater:
"No i haven`t ,and i did not use the Fire Wire Port.
They seem to think i am a computer wizard. It`s OK for those people who have the gift.
Remember ..." More »
Western Digital's inevitable Thunderbolt offering is missing solid state guts—and that hurts it a lot. But what it lacks in speed, it makes up for in capacity. It is an enormous vault, with more space than most humans will ever need. Read More >>
Featured comment by ispy:
"I've been looking at a Synology DS212J (BYOHDs), take a look. If anyone on here has any comments on it, or anything similar NAS wise, that'd be great..." More »
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