Digital BW, The Print

Question: Can one equip a PC for Thunderbolt simply by adding a PCI card?  Or does it require a new Bios or new motherboard?  

I just bought a Seagate USB 3.0 drive.  The literature said it could be modified to be Thunderbolt by purchasing a replacement unit for the bottom USB 3.0 unit.

Thunderbolt is reputed to be twice as fast as USB 3.0.  

BertGF



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@...> wrote:
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> It is the same Thunderbolt.  Apple was involved with the development and because of that they got a one year period where Intel would only sell it to 
> Apple.  It is now coming on line with other vendors.  The Haswell chips have some power advantages to the Ivy Bridge.  The Intel internal HD4000 GPU can grunt a bit when 
> pushing a lot of pixels - although a lot of people drive two 27 inch displays with it.  The Macbook Pro 15 inch with Retina display also has a high end Nvidia GPU card which is used
> for the heavy graphic lifting.  However, I am quite happy with my Macbook as far as battery life.  
> 
> Intel is not planning on introducing an upgrade to Thunderbolt until 2014.  However, 10 Gbits/sec over copper is  not shabby.  Thunderbolt will support 20 Gbits/sec over fiber.  The beauty is the ability to daisy chain devices, monitors, disk drives, etc.  
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