About HP’s Thunderbolt rejection
To date I didn’t see any desktop or portable computer having a Firewire 800 port. Or more. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
Did you see?
The exception are Macs. Apple was the first to introduce commercial products with Firewire 800.
The next big question is: did Firewire 800 became popular, like, say as USB? Nope. Why not? (Remember, Firewire 800 is quite popular among Mac users, but that doesn’t mean that Firewire 800 is generally popular). Who knows. The answer isn’t important to me because I’m a Mac user who has a Mac with Firewire 800 and who is using it on the daily basis.
Now to HP. They said Thunderbolt isn’t for them.
HP is a big player in the computer world. What means HP’s rejection to Intel and Thunderbolt? Will Thunderbolt become Firewire 800 version 2 in the world of ports? Will Apple stay the only big vendor with clear plans implementing Thunderbolt? We will see.
But again, that doesn’t bother me. When I will buy a new Mac, it will have a (or two or even more) Thunderbolt port(s) and I will using it (them) on the daily basis. I only hope external disks won’t present a bottleneck for Thunderbolt (you know, Thunderbolt is thunder fast - 10 Gb/s, traditional hard disks aren’t; the raising star here are SSDs).
