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Attaching a Thunderbolt GPU to a Macbook Air

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Re: Attaching a Thunderbolt GPU to a Macbook Air

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At least firewire didn't cannibalize your video output port

That's why most Thunderbolt devices allow for daisy-chaining.

Thunderbolt, yes. But when using it for its original purpose as a miniDisplayPort, you run out of options quickly.

Re: Attaching a Thunderbolt GPU to a Macbook Air

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> $300 MSRP is a just a little ridiculous Is it? Sounds pretty normal to me. Belkin is a pretty good brand and charges accordingly. Like Apple, really. I think that for their target market $300 won't be a barrier at all. In fact after checking it out I'm pretty tempted...

$300 is about 3 times what it should be, in my opinion. It's not much more than a fancy USB hub with audio & a NIC. USB 3.0 hubs with NICs are about $50-60, or one could easily use a regular USB 3.0 hub and attach a USB NIC, sound card, etc. Perhaps not as clean but a hell of a lot cheaper. Even worse, the price is not really $300 - in order to use it, you'll need a thunderbolt cable which is nearly $40 (!). There ar…

What are you smoking? You cannot get anything even remotely similar for $100.

> one could easily use a regular USB 3.0 hub and attach a USB NIC, sound card, etc. Perhaps not as clean but a hell of a lot cheaper

Great, go and string together your tangle of bargain basement crap all over your desk. The whole point of these docks is to not do that.

You guys are not in the target market. I'm surprised you even have macs.

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