Usually, when a brand new industry standard debuts on Macs, there’s a period of shortage before compatible devices begin trickling in. Thunderbolt is no different. Intel partnered with Apple on Thunderbolt earlier this year and it took Apple several months to update its notebooks, iMac and Mac mini families with Thunderbolt I/O. The offering of supported peripherals was initially limited to Apple’s $49 Thunderbolt cable, LaCie and Promise RAIDs, Matrox gear, BlackMagic’s solution for field video editing and a couple other devices.
Magma joins Sonnet, which also unveiled a similar Thunderbolt box last month. The $150 Sonnet ExpressCard/34 Thunderbolt adapter accepts ExpressCard peripherals and also expands your Air’s connectivity with eSATA, USB 3, Firewire 800, Gigabit Ethernet and SDXC and CF cards. More product highlights after the break…
- Apple publishes Thunderbolt support documents (9to5mac.com)
- Apple about to roll out Thunderbolt cable for data transfers and displays (9to5mac.com)
- Apple ‘leaks’ Thunderbolt-equipped LED Display…on their website (9to5mac.com)
- The new Air has scaled-down Thunderbolt chip: Two 10Gbps channels, one external display (9to5mac.com)
- Sony debuts Light Peak product in Europe with external GPU (9to5mac.com)
- New Apple hardware: What you need to know (9to5mac.com)
