Posts by strobe

I suppose this could be useful for presentations, but otherwise I don't see the point given the limited space.

Steve, eat a cheeseburger. Make it a healthy organic grass-fed raw milk cheeseburger if you must, but eat one. Hell, eat two

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Oh, no, of course not. But I certainly hope that doesn't stop people from making data-only PCIe Thunderbolt cards available. Because I refuse to buy a new Mac Pro just for a stupid awesome...

Having used Macs constantly since '86 in hundreds of environments, the only virus I ever came across was nVIR. It didn't do anything malicious except copy itself. MacTech then released a simple program in C to "vaccinate" it....

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil So? What does that have to do with anything? Disallow access to more than one (two?) Thunderbolt for video simultaneously. There's also nothing stopping a (third-party) Thunderbolt port being...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil So have a MagSafe, five Thunderbolt, and audio in/out. Solved. Unfortunately, due to the requirement that TB ports carry BOTH protocols, this isn't possible. You need a GPU per TB port.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil USB is dead. FireWire is dead. There's zero reason for either of them anymore. Except that TB only supports up to 6 devices. It's like SCSI all over again. It's a pity Firewire 3200 which...

Quote: Originally Posted by sgnq The daisy-chaining of displays is also limited by the GPUs in every notebook, no? They all probably support two displays at most - one in addition to the built-in (or?). What's cool is that Thunderbolt...

To drive the point home, the ultimate irony hit me as I have a displayport on my MacBook Pro which can't audio out. Yea, that's OK but don't you dare have a TB port which can't video out!

The more you think about it the more stupid it gets... The other repercussion of requiring display-out for every TB port is it killed potential use for servers. Since every port requires the ability to drive a display, that means you...