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Expect Hundreds of Thunderbolt Devices, Says Intel

Posted by timothy on from the gee-that's-a-small-production-run dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Thunderbolt ports have been spotted on a PC motherboard, but the reality is that the technology is far from mainstream outside of Apple products. Which is why it is interesting to hear Intel predict that 'a hundred' Thunderbolt devices are expected to be on the market by the end of the year. The comment was made this week at Intel's presentation at IDF in Beijing. Ultrabooks with Thunderbolt are expected to appear this year."

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  1. Not hundreds of different types by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But literally, just hundreds.

  2. So three monitors and ninety-seven hard drives? by Kenja · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or are they also counting the computers with an unused thunderbolt port on them?

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    1. Re:So three monitors and ninety-seven hard drives? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I see a Thunderbolt port as kind of like Sacagawea dollar. Just like I can trade my Sacagawea dollar in at the bank for a real dollar, I can go buy a converter for my Thunderbolt port to turn it into a real port.

  3. Do cables count? by oneiros27 · · Score: 1, Funny

    As the drives don't ship with them, and there only seems to be one on the market right now ($50 from Apple), there's lots of room to say, make more than one length available, or maybe other manufacturers. I mean, they're active cables, so that should count as a 'device' right?

    Then there's all the mini-DisplayPort adaptors now rebranding themselves as 'thunderbolt' adaptors ... so there's a couple dozen right there ... (VGA, DVI-D, DVI-DL, miniHDMI, etc .. and those are already available from more than one company).

    See? I'm sure we can even get to 200 if we count it right.

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  4. Re:erm... what? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thunderbolt separates those who know how to use Google from the users.

    No, that's porn.

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  5. Re:erm... what? by Auroch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Define: Thunderbolt
    A. The Primary Weapon in Zeus' arsenal.
    B. A loud noise, generally appearing (ha!) after a lightning bolt.
    C. A sexual act involving [censored, for the sake of the children].
    D. Some new port, similar to firewire, that won't catch on anywhere except with apple fanboys, who will claim is the second (third) coming of apple superiority while the rest of us just say "Nice OS, dude ... paid too much for the hardware, though".

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  6. Figuratively. by mosb1000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Literally now literally means "figuratively."