Intel's Thunderbolt Coming to PC Sometime in 2012

[lxlifestream]

Just a little confusion, yes this is awesome, and i can't wait! But does this mean we will need a new motherboard and cpu for thunderbolt? Or will there be a pci card for this? Because that would suck!

Because i already put $1500 into my Hack

 

[elcheale]

Just a little confusion, yes this is awesome, and i can't wait! But does this mean we will need a new motherboard and cpu for thunderbolt? Or will there be a pci card for this? Because that would suck!

Because i already put $1500 into my Hack

You will need a new motherboard at least!... sucks but true

 

[cosmicjoke]

i own two thunderbolt displays, so i'm definitely willing to be a guinea pig when a decent board is released

 

[pwalth21]

i own two thunderbolt displays, so i'm definitely willing to be a guinea pig when a decent board is released

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Extremely Jealous of the 2 displays.

 

[cosmicjoke]

i own two thunderbolt displays, so i'm definitely willing to be a guinea pig when a decent board is released

Rich Uncle.jpg

Extremely Jealous of the 2 displays.

heh they're pretty great w/ a couple caveats worth noting, in bootcamp the displays only initialize when booting so you can't be in windows on the mbp and just plug them in without a reboot, it also disables suspend when in windows (gather again that has to do with them initializing post boot).... other nuisances as well, when i plug in to the mbp (in os x) like half the time the primary monitor initializes as the one i want and the other half of the time it's the other monitor, it just doesn't seem to remember, so i'm always reorganizing them in system preferences heh...

/firstworldproblems

 

[pwalth21]

Those all make sense. I would say that most of those issues should be able to be fixed with a software update (ML fingers crossed). As with any new technology I'm sure they're still working out the kinks.