Thunderbolt™ Technology

Not to be confused with ThunderBolt™ the phone, Thunderbolt™  “the technology” is a high speed interface containing both PCI Express and DisplayPort protocols on the same connector. Developed by Intel©, and appearing first on the new MacBook Pro, it provides a single connector to both move data and drive displays. Twice as fast as USB 3.0 and compatible with DVI, HDMI, and VGA displays, it’s touted as a “an incredibly fast input/output technology that just about anything can plug into.”

What it also will be is just another confusing connector for those people whose VCRs kept blinking 12:00 all the time. Firewire 800, we hardly knew ye.