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Apple To Unveil Light Peak, New MacBook Pros This Week?

An anonymous reader writes "Apple will reportedly soon make an announcement regarding a new high-speed connection technology. And as luck would have it, this comes hot on the heels of a report that Apple will release a slew of new MacBook Pros later this week. For some time now, reports have abounded detailing Apple and Intel's cooperation on a new transfer technology dubbed Light Peak capable of transferring data at 10GB/s both up and down. Could this find its way into Apple's new lineup of MacBook Pros as has been previously rumored?"

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  1. Editors: please fix the title by necro81 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The new connection tech is called Light Peak. The summary has it right; the title has it wrong.

  2. Re:Yet another Apple "standard" by Enry · · Score: 4, Funny

    You misspelled Firewire

  3. Re:What's the use by sznupi · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Light Peak can form a network between machines - imagine a Beowulf cluster using it!

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