It’s an outlandish-but-sadly-predictable $55. Worse, right now there’s not much to connect it to. There’s an obscenely expensive Promise Pegasus 4×1TB RAID for $US1000, for example. Or you can use it to boot a new Macbook Pro or iMac into target disk mode, connecting two Thunderbolt-enabled machines, but at that point you’re really just turning your computer into a $US2000 hard drive. [Apple via Wired]
Nodeity
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 9:30 AMHeh, heh,.. yet another proprietary cable, and just for fun lets kick our Fanboys in the nards by charging a friggin fortune for a cable that prolly cost a couple of bucks for being so loyal to us,.. Heh, heh, heh
Richard
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 9:35 PMIts no more proprietary than USB…
Nodeity
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 7:33 AMDude, seriously…! USB is a file transfer medium that is ubiquitous to all systems, including Mac! Thunderbolt is for Macs only, that’s the very meaning of proprietary!! The only way to use it with a different system, is if it’s been licensed via Mac!!!
Paul Walker
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 3:53 PMThunderbolt is not only for macs. It is a standard developed and owned by intel. Apple implemented it first, and Intel is currently encouraging computer manufacturers to include thunderbolt ports too. Sony has announced some support, but otherwise not much has happened on the PC side.
Similar to firewire before it, you can’t expect its existence outside of the Macintosh ecosystem, but it isn’t an Apple-exclusive technology.
Owen
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 9:43 AMOrrrrr macfixit.com.au. Much cheaper.
Mike
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 10:15 AMSweet, cheers for the link.
OT: Didn’t expect anything different from apple. That cable probably cost $2 to make (if that). Same old same old