New MacBook Pros and Thoughts on Lightpeak/Thunderbolt.....

[insine]

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

Do you think any audio equipment manufactures will jump on this? And will there be any tangible benefits, aside from the increased I/O bandwidth?

http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thun ... /index.htm
On Intel's page about ThunderPort they have quotes from: AJA, Apogee, Avid, BlackMagic, Universal Audio, and Western Digital.

Previous model MBP are on sale on Apple clearance page.

[adamc]

would rather the mew macbooks had hdmi tbh

[nowaysj]

Yeah USB 3 is in trouble now because of this. I think USB 3 will become big but Thunderbolt will replace firewire.

This is the replacement for firewire seeing how bad it failed, nothing can compete with USB, its far too popular.

i wouldn't say firewire failed, at any given time it was the better standard than usb and though usb was clearly more popular, there was no shortage of firewire ports on macs/pc's, nor of firewire peripherals. I've only ever had firewire audio interfaces. I mean is is still around today even.

that said thunderbolt is twice as fast as the best usb3 can put out, and while apple developed it, they developed it with intel so it will surely be available for the vast majority of windows based pc's in the coming years.

I have never had firewire anything. The biggest problem with it was it didn't come standard on hardly anything. Once Apple dropped it, forget about it. I also heard that there were come inconsistencies with it like some powered some not. Different pins. Just because you had firewire and a firewire device didn't mean it was going to work. Not 100% sure of any of this but I was shopping for a card at one point and I was a little confused as to what to get. Ended up just getting a USB2 device.

Even apple had problems with this. They tried to switch to a cheaper non TI firewire chipset, with tragic problems for audio. If one manu can make a successful chipset and others not... not good for the format.