Thunderbolt new technology from Intel

A thunderbolt is a discharge of lightning accompanied by a loud thunderclap. Likewise, the new thunderbolt technology developed by intel and brought to market with technical collaboration from apple inc is creating such an impact on the techno world. Thunderbolt is an interface for connecting external peripheral devices to a computer by using an expansion bus. Thunderbolt is a revolutionary input output technology that supports high resolution displays and high performance data devices through a single compact port.
Thunderbolt technology is available on MacBook Air,MacBook Pro,iMac and Mac mini.

Thunderbolt combines PCI Express and Display Port into a new serial data interface that can be carries over longer and less costly cables. PCI express is the technology that links all the high performance components in a Mac. With the PCI express technology ,you can use existing USB and Firewire peripherals. Since thunderbolt is based on Display Port technology, the video is of high quality. Thunderbolt input output technology  supports  the Apple Thunderbolt Display and Mini Display Port displays. It also supports DisplayPort,DVI,HDMI and VGA displays through the use of existing adapters.

Physical  Features

Length : 3 meters maximum

Width : 8.3mm

Height : 5.4mm

Display

Apple Thunderbolt Display

Storage

Promise Pegasus R4 and Pegasus R6

LaCie Little Big Disk

Sonnet Fusion RAID

Video

Blackmagic Ultrastudio 3D

Matrox MX02

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