Digital BW, The Print

It is the same Thunderbolt.  Apple was involved with the development and because of that they got a one year period where Intel would only sell it to 
Apple.  It is now coming on line with other vendors.  The Haswell chips have some power advantages to the Ivy Bridge.  The Intel internal HD4000 GPU can grunt a bit when 
pushing a lot of pixels - although a lot of people drive two 27 inch displays with it.  The Macbook Pro 15 inch with Retina display also has a high end Nvidia GPU card which is used
for the heavy graphic lifting.  However, I am quite happy with my Macbook as far as battery life.  

Intel is not planning on introducing an upgrade to Thunderbolt until 2014.  However, 10 Gbits/sec over copper is  not shabby.  Thunderbolt will support 20 Gbits/sec over fiber.  The beauty is the ability to daisy chain devices, monitors, disk drives, etc.  

Truman

On May 19, 2013, at 8:05 PM, Paul Roark <roark.paul@...> wrote:

> Truman,
> 
> My research brought me to about the same place. Are the Haswell chips
> being used yet?
> 
> Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@...> wrote:
> 
> ... statistics show that with mechanical drives larger than 1 TB the live
> > expectancy for a drive is about 18 to 24 months.
> 
> That sucks. Maybe that is why Dell no longer stocked the 1.5 TB drive I
> had in the box. The replacement they had is one TB.
> 
> > ... Macbook Pro Retina display with 16 GB of memory and a 512 SSD. It is
> > very capable ... The raid is used for all the photo storage. The beauty
> > of the thunderbolt buss is you can daisy chain multiple devices.
> >
> 
> Macs seem to use a proprietary version of the Thunderbolt. I will probably
> wait for the more generic versions to hit the market (as well as the
> Haswell).
> 
> > ... I am quite happy with this setup and it also minimizes losing
> > something important.
> >
> 
> Do you have any off-site backup? I've never lost anything to fire, but
> always lived in fire-prone areas. So, like with earthquakes, it's a risk I
> try to prepare for.
> 
> Thanks for posting.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
> 
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