Thunderbolt Motherboards

[ratsa]

Is thunderbolt on the way for Intel motherboards? Will it be worth the wait?

 

[itzdanielp]

Yes, it is.

That really is up to you. If you use applications that can take advantage of the high speed interface, then yes. If you just want a faster way to copy files to an external HDD, then not really, as the price won't justify it.

The part that interests me, is being able to connect a PCIe 16x GPU to a laptop or other similar device to augment the processing power.

 

[ratsa]

I have no use for Thunderbolt at the moment, but I also had no use for eSATA and USB 3 when they first came out and now I do.

Besides hard drives and possibly GPUs what else can Thunderbolt do?

Are there any PCI cards right now that provide Thunderbolt for PCs?

 

[itzdanielp]

Everything I have seen is still over on the Fruit side of things (Apple)