Intel will support USB 3 alongside Thunderbolt

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12 pointsanderzole5 comments

Thunderbolt is essentially external PCIe lane. I think its rather obvious that it isn't competing with USB (which is best suited for elcheapo gadgets)

Somebody should just bring a USB 3.0 Hub that works with Thunderbolt and i would be fine. Multiple Monitors galore ;)

I think someone is working on a thunderbolt -> USB3 + more hub. I personally can't wait until the next gen macbook airs have thunderbolt and hopefully usb3. There would be finally a way to transfer data to/from them in a quick way, their biggest flaw currently. It would also allow me to have a two connection laptop dock too.

Computing may be sufficiently advanced when the biggest thing I am looking forward to is not having to plug in both my display and USB connector when I sit down at my office.

Yeah, same here. I really hope that Wacom goes for the Thunderbolt.

My current rig includes a 12" Cintiq which has a mess of cables, a breakout box, a wall wart, needs a Displayport to DVI adaptor, etc etc.

The mess of cables is exactly like this:

http://www.photofacts.nl/fotografie/foto/et/wacom_cintiq_cab...

Hate the cables so much.

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