It was n’t so long ago that Apple observers were wondering why it was takingThunderbolt peripherals so long to get to market place . This week ’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas may be put an end to that conversation .
Here are some of the new Thunderbolt - compatible accessories that have been unveiled at CES :
Belkinhas introduce the new$299 Thunderbolt Express Dock . The dock let in three USB 2.0 ports , one FireWire 800 port wine , one HDMI interface , one 3.5 mm audio interface , one Gb Ethernet port , and two Thunderbolt port for daisy - chaining to other Thunderbolt gimmick . The bobtail will be useable to purchaser in September .
Elgato ’s newThunderbolt SSDis compact enough to fit in your back pocket . The solid state drive draws mightiness from your Mac straight through the Thunderbolt porthole , minimizing the cable television service mess that can often accompany peripheral . The $ 430 gadget comes to grocery in February .
LaCie : This computer peripheral makerunveiled two new Thunderbolt product : The 2Big Thunderbolt Series , a professional two - embayment RAID host aimed at photo and video recording editors ; and the eSATA Hub Thunderbolt Series , design to allow Thunderbolt - outfit Macs link to external hard drives and get top data - transfer speeds . LaCie says the new products will collide with the marketplace “ in the first one-quarter of 2012 . ” The company proffer no pricing information .
Blackmagic Design : The company ’s newIntensity Shuttleis a video capture box with HDMI , parallel constituent , composite and S - Video inputs and output . It also has financial backing for Mount Rushmore State and HD compressed and uncompressed 10 - bit video capture and playback . The $ 239 machine will be available during the first stern of 2012 .
Fudzilla points outthat thatOCZ Technologyis showing off theLightfoot external hard drive , which is bombshell - compatible . OCZ did n’t specifically remark the Lightfootin its closet acquittance highlight products it would display CES , assure only that it would feature a Thunderbolt - enabled toilsome driving . Fudzilla said no information on pricing and accessibility of the Lightfoot was usable from OCZ .
It has been almost a penny-pinching since Apple started outfit MacBook Pros with Thunderbolt ports . The engineering allows for super - truehearted conveyance of datum — three times libertine than the beneficial FireWire technology — including , notably , video — between a computer and outside devices . As the engineering becomes cheaper , though — and that come out to be happening with the latest round of announcement — experts say Thunderbolt will bump mass - consumer employment , enabling top-notch - quick datum backups , the editing of high - definition photograph , and more .
