Maximum PC: Intel’s Thunderbolt has arrived on the PC after being exclusive to the Macintosh platform for more than a year. With its promise of 10Gb/s‑per‑channel throughput, what self-respecting power user wouldn’t opt for a Thunderbolt-based external backup solution? Well, before you get too excited, let’s compare T-bolt point-by-point with its natural competitor, USB 3.0. After all, there’s more to a technology than pure performance, as we found out.
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Apple will probably have just as hard a time if not more so because of how entrenched the usb platform is.
what's thunderbolt?
It's been so funny seeing the Mac-fanboys in shock at me grabbing a thunderbolt cable ("no no, that plug is only for Macs") and then plugging it in.
But USB is best, if only due to backwards compability.