“Apple proved today that it is firmly behind Thunderbolt as a standard for the future of Mac computing,” Darrell Etherington reports for GigaOM. “It put not one, but two of the new high-speed I/O ports on the new 27-inch iMac, as if to firmly reinforce the point.”
Some are hailing it as the FireWire replacement, but here are five reasons why Thunderbolt is actually a much bigger deal than that:
1. It Will Change How We Think About External Storage (Thunderbolt will make external storage as fast as internal storage, so that you can expand your machine’s potential storage capacity almost infinitely without making any performance sacrifices.)
2. It Will Allow for Everything HD All the Time
3. It Will Extend Beyond Macs (Think iOS devices)
4. It Will End Your Connectivity Limitations
5. It Will Only Get Better With Time
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dow C.” for the heads up.]