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iFixIt performs teardown of Apple’s Thunderbolt cable, discovers receiver/transceiver system inside

When in doubt about a new piece of hardware, take it apart and study it. Once again, the guys at iFixIt performed a full teardown of a new Apple item, this time dissecting Apple’s just-released $49 Thunderbolt cable to reveal an “active cable” with transceiver chips on each end. iFixit took apart the new cable […]

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Initial tests show promising Thunderbolt speeds, ability to boot off new port

A newly published series of test results from the cool cats at AnandTech shows Apple’s newly adopted Thunderbolt technology blows FireWire 800 out of the water with data transfer speeds to an external RAID system at 700MB/s. After the release of Appleā€™s Thunderbolt cable on Tuesday, early impressions have begun to surface on the Web. […]