“Intel and Apple are underselling Thunderbolt – for good reason – but make no mistake: Thunderbolt is part of of your future. Here’s how Thunderbolt will roll out – and why,” Robin Harris writes for ZDNet.
“Peripheral availability and cost will be the main reason Thunderbolt doesn’t take off fast,” Harris writes. “Thunderbolt is a solution to high-end problems, not the consumer mainstream, today. But if Intel is wise, they’ll drive Thunderbolt’s pricing down fast to make it more attractive than FireWire was at its peak.”
“But consumers will gradually learn to consume a lot more bandwidth and they always like simpler cabling,” Harris writes. “It will take a few years, but if it is priced correctly, Thunderbolt will become a mainstream consumer technology.”
Harris writes, “Given Apple’s high-end dominance, I’d expect only HP and Dell to to join the Thunderbolt brigade along with a few workstation mobo’s. Thunderbolt will cement Apple’s stranglehold on the creative pro market.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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