“The promise of the Thunderbolt standard is that it can deliver a lot of data over long distances very quickly for many types of devices,” Seth Weintraub writes for 9to5Mac. “Unfortunately, that promise has been pretty slow to materialize, and the long distance piece of the equation has been particularly painful.”
“Corning is hoping to turn that around this year with the consumer launch of its Thunderbolt Optical Cables in 10 meter (33 foot), 30 meter (99 foot), and 60 meter (198 foot) sizes,” Weintraub writes. “With these lengths, you can put your Thunderbolt hard disk and arrays far away from your desk. If you have a Thunderbolt Display or a Thunderbolt dock, you can even move your Mac to the utility closet or basement and really clean up your desk space.”
Weintraub writes, “I’ve been using the 33-foot version for a few weeks and here’s my take…”
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