any thunderbolt motherboard yet?

[MartyF]

Hello,

My old PC base is due for renewal.

As I also use an iPad and a Apple laptop I thought I would get a motherboard that included a Thunderbolt socket.

Apple seem to have ignored USB3 and fitted Thunderbolt to most new products.

Can some kind soul advise if there is a suitable motherboard that includes USB3 -AND- Thunderbolt to "futureproof" ( I know that is impossible longterm ) my new base unit. Then any new Apple products I buy will connect to my base unit

Thanks for any imput

Marty

 

[robertito]

AFAIK only apple has access to thunderbolt, so no motherboard manufacturer is going to be able to provide it, unless the mobo is for a mac.

 

[BE4TNUT]

I do not know any any mobo's outside of Apple that have Thunderbolt right now.

Thunderbolt is actually a product of Intel. It is not an Apple thing, but Apple helped develop it and are the first to adopt it. There will be a Thunderbolt/USB3 war for a while before it shows up as being widely adopted, that's my opinion at least.