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Quote: Originally Posted by PXT The race is on. PC makers will choose between adding Thunderbolt because it is good technology, or ignoring it to make Macs, yet again, the odd machine out and less compatible with most of the new...
Quote: Originally Posted by Macintosh_Next The thing is, if not many companies are using [Thunderbolt] -- not just PC's but companies that make HD Recorders and external hard drives don't support it, then why should a company like HP...
Quote: Originally Posted by popnfresh With the advent of the first iMac, Apple seemed to embrace open standards, like USB. Gone were proprietary standards like ADB and localtalk. There were good reasons to drop ADB, but being...
Quote: Originally Posted by PXT Oh great. And from Apple's http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt/ ... "And because Thunderbolt is based on DisplayPort technology, the video standard for high-resolution displays, any Mini DisplayPort...
Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Yes, but how many professional photographers are going to use a MBA for thousands of RAW photos and hours of AVCHD hi-def video? Different computers for different needs. Quite a few, actually....
Quote: Originally Posted by cy_starkman Geez, you need to switch to Lightroom. ; ) I'm also a photographer (professionally, off and on, for the past 40 years) and I use Aperture 3 with RAW files. It works fine on a MBA with 4GB RAM...
Quote: Originally Posted by Goldenclaw Not necessarily true. I want power *and* portability. The MacBook Airs are fantastically light. I want to be able to carry it around and do design work. However, I also want Apple's specs to...
Quote: Originally Posted by a_greer USB has been daisy chainable from day one, hell most if not all of us already do it weather or not we realize it. Sorry, no. USB uses a tiered, star topology using multiple hubs, and requires the...
Quote: Originally Posted by Wings They forecast a reduction in the expected sales of "PC"s but from everything I've seen the expected sales of Macs continue to climb. So I assume when they say "PC" they mean...
Quote: Originally Posted by minderbinder Now if we could only get USB3 on there as well. Talk to Intel. They're the ones claiming that they'll have USB3 support included in their chipset next year. No sooner.
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