Thursday, February 24, 2011

The Light Peak of Apple would be called Thunderbolt

On the eve of the 56th anniversary of Steve Jobs, runaway rumors about new Apple enunciate tomorrow. Two sources, however, released this morning the same information, supported by photos. Can be considered relatively reliable information. According to them, although Apple would introduce its new MacBook Pro a new port at high speed, called Thunderbolt (lightning).

These new MacBooks would be unveiled tomorrow. Incidentally, Intel held a press conference tomorrow also to unveil its technology Light Peak. Thunderbolt would be chosen by the trade name Apple Light Peak, a bit like the Firewire was once the IEEE 1394. The port Thunderbolt take the form of mini DisplayPort port already present on the Apple laptops.

This is not surprising insofar LightPeak is a multi-interface, a pipe through which signals can travel Ethernet, DisplayPort, USB, etc.. However, according to information published by MacBidouille fscklog and the presence of Thunderbolt does not mean the disappearance of Ethernet or USB ports on the MacBook.

The technical details of what would be the new model 13 "mentions two USB, one FireWire 800, Gigabit Ethernet and a reader SDXC. We also note the presence of a disk drive 320 GB 5400 rpm and DVD players all there is more classic. The rumor of the generalization of SSD and SuperDrive on the end of the range appear false.

The same applies to firms that announce chassis thinner and lighter: The new 13 "would weigh 2.04 kg and measuring 2.4 cm in thickness as the current one. The only real changes, besides the arrival of Thunderbolt, is therefore the transition to the Sandy Bridge architecture (with a i5 Dual Core 2.3 GHz on the 13 "model is still unpublished at Intel, the 2410M) and the abandonment of the NVidia GeForce 320M in favor of HD 3000 Graphics Integrated Intel to CPU.

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