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Originally Posted by Senna4ever
The great thing about Thunderbolt is that all you need is one cable to connect your peripherals + monitor + whatever. The sustained thoughput is faster than USB 3.0's theoretical max, IIRC.
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It's true, their sustained throughput is faster than USB 3.0's - but there aren't any peripherals that you can use where the USB 3.0 would be a bottleneck.
I can see how it would be great to be able to connect everything through one port, but it just means you will need to buy a million accessories to connect things to that one port. Connect just a monitor, one adaptor. connect a monitor and a usb device, another adaptor.
and yes, firewire was developed with Apple, but also with Sony - which labels it as their iLink port.
It's funny, because when I worked at a Sony Centre in London - we'd have a lot of customers who would buy a DV or HDV camcorder from us - where you need a a firewire cable to plug into their computer. A lot of them have MPB's to work on their stuff - but when they wanted to plug in their camcorder - they would ask me how to do it. I told them they needed a convertor to go from the standard Firewire 600 from a Firewire 800 - which MBP's have. Apple, being the only product on the market to use that port, SHOULD have an adaptor. But everytime I send someone to go to the Apple Store, they come back, saying that they don't sell it. I'm not sure if it's the idiot genius's that work there - or they actually don't sell an adaptor for their own product.