Current Thunderbolt ports will support optical cabling next year

Tagged: intel, Mac, Thunderbolt, Computer Hardware
Source: Ars Technica - Read the full article
Posted: 34 weeks 1 day ago

"Device makers are slowly but surely getting Thunderbolt-compatible products to market—including drives, RAIDs, hubs, video editing boxes, at least one Thunderbolt display—and a variety of storage makers have told Ars that more products are in the works. Sony and HP have backtracked on their initial support for the standard, but both Acer and ASUS have committed to building Windows machines with standard Thunderbolt ports using updated controllers that should be available in the second quarter of next year."

 

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