Thursday, June 30, 2011
The Tech Inside Apple?s $50 Thunderbolt Cable
By Chris Foresman, Ars Technica The first Thunderbolt compatible peripherals ? Promise?s Pegasus RAIDs ? started shipping on Tuesday. Using the RAIDs with a Thunderbolt equipped Mac, though, requires a rather expensive $50 cable that is only available from Apple. We dug into the design of the cable to find out why Apple felt justified in charging $50 for some plastic-wrapped copper wire, and why Thunderbolt may have a hard time gaining traction outside of the higher-end storage and video device market ? a fate similar to Apple?s FireWire. Promise?s RAIDs do not come supplied with a
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