Thunderbolt discussion from Apple Marketshare news thread

[Hyper-X]

The Macbook line of products are probably not going to do much better in the long run. Many people are upset at Apple's inability to support older hardware/software and most are catching on that owning an Apple computer is a 1-2 year lifecycle leaving many loyal customers out in the dark. Many of my clients who were diehard Apple users have recently gone back to PC's, to Lenovo for their Thinkpads.

Thunderbolt is an expensive failure and hardly anyone's using it except for a small demographic of professionals and pro-sumers. There's been no such benefit to Thunderbolt over USB 3.0 and older Macbooks that are based on USB 2.0 are without a Thunderbolt to USB 3.0 adapter unless they intend on shelling out several hundred dollars for a yet unreleased Belkin and Matrox media boxes.

 

[AidenShaw]

Hm, that's subtle. But never mind, it is possible and the prospect of using PCIe for distributed computing is discussed elsewhere as you can see.

...and it's being discussed in the context of special purpose PCIe fabrics built to the latest PCIe specifications with BIOS and OS support for sharing the PCIe bus with multiple masters.

...and in the context of systems with Ethernet NICs that cost twice what a Mini-Mac costs, and SAN HBAs that are the price of a Mac Pro.

They're not discussing Mini-Mac clusters over T-Bolt V1.0.

 

[subsonix]

...and it's being discussed in the context of special purpose PCIe fabrics built to the latest PCIe specifications with BIOS and OS support for sharing the PCIe bus with multiple masters.

...and in the context of systems with Ethernet NICs that cost twice what a Mini-Mac costs, and SAN HBAs that are the price of a Mac Pro.

They're not discussing Mini-Mac clusters over T-Bolt V1.0.

Well, not surprisingly it's a generic description from the view point for HPCwire, not surprisingly, to them, there are different requirements in a different environment. That does not mean those are requirements in the environment we discuss here, or that they are requirements per se.