What the hell are apple doing with thunderbolt ? for christs sake a 1TB thunderbolt lacie hard drive is probably going to work out as £500, compared to £80 for a USB 1tb HD probably ? ie to use the port is going to cost me £420 effectively ? and nearly all lacie HD power supplies seem to die after 6 months anyway ? the cables are £50 ! and have chips to fail in them built in, next will we need cable cooling ? the first raid enclosure will probably cost a £1000 ?! what people wanted was something faster than firewire 800 which could maximise Hard disk drive potential and raid ssd drive potential somewhere upto say 600mb a second. And make sure its a cheap port standard to implement ? Thanks to apple thunderbolt seems unavailable and it seems to be to prohibitively expensive and therefore unviable for the average user ? if this thunderbolt standard doesn’t die out compared to the no doubt super ubiquitous super cheap usb3 available now on PC ? what is the point ? Apple better subsidise this massively like sony did Blu-Ray On the PS3 ? and get a move on about it or who is going to buy into this/adopt this overpriced currently unavailable standard ?

I bet you apple stuff me royal, in three months time, releasing an imac to replace my thunderbolt one, with USB3 on it ? and abandon this expensive standard ? That would be typical apple to sell me up a technical cul-de-sac and abandon me and my thunderbolt equipped imac. chips in cables sounds like more stuff to go wrong ? and makes the cabling overpriced ? to be honest esata that didn’t require a reboot to register live on a mac would have been good enough ? I certainly bet they’ll put usb3 on their imacs as well as thunderbolt, meaning im screwed whichever way. Well I don’t mind thunderbolt being a replacement for USB3, as long as it competes on price ? which at the moment when you make the bloody cables cost the same cost a terabyte drive itself ? theyve got priceplan wrong ? cables with chips in are going cost crazily compared to standard cables.

And no doubt the two displays ive already got hooked upto to my thunderbolt ports with mini displayport adapters somehow wont fit into this entire thunderbolt HD scenario ? because ill need new thunderbolt displays, or the thunderbolt HD will need to be at the end of a chain and not at the beginning or something or vice versa, this better be hot swap and better work solidly from the off and not require a version two thunderbolt to be stable and thereby screw over the early adopters ?. theyll be compatibility issues with this I can feel it in the blood ?

Whichever way Apple better clear all these quandry’s up real fast, and not charge me a fortune for me to be able to connect something upto these new fancy ports, or I will be darn angry.

a Thunderbolt 1tb HD should be the same price as a 1TB USB3 one, as both can maximise the hard drives potential speed, so why pay over the odds for this standard ? when its £50 bloody quid for every cable ? I can buy a 1tb drive for less than the cost of the cable ? Apple need to grow up fast an subsidise this standard to hell or its dead ? except for 1% market of multi HD channel video editors who can actually afford it to commercially blow money on it ?