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Belkin announce new Thunderbolt Express Dock

Raymond Daily January 10, 2012 Component

Belkin have announced their new Thunderbolt Express Dock. They are showcasing the device at CES in Las Vegas. It is designed for Apple Macintosh users, enabling the Macbook Air, Pro, Mac Mini and iMac users to connect multiple peripherals to a single connector.

This dock means Mac users can connect multiple USB devices, watch movies in 1080p and transfer huge amounts of data very quickly between devices.

Martin Avilla, general manager for Belkin's Core Business Unit said “People purchase MacBook Airs and Ultrabooks for ultimate portability, but constantly plugging-in and unplugging numerous cable-connected peripherals is an annoying and time consuming ordeal, The Thunderbolt Express Dock provides a much-needed solution that creates a cleaner, faster, more productive workspace and reliable connectivity to desktop devices and the Internet.”

This will be released in September this year.

Features:

  • Quickly connects into a desktop workstation and instantly accesses multiple devices with a single cable
  • Adds reliable, gigabit Ethernet connectivity to your laptop
  • Includes three USB 2.0 ports, one Firewire 800 port, one HDMI port, one 3.5mm Audio port, one gigabit Ethernet port and two Thunderbolt ports (one upstream and one downstream) for daisy-chaining to another Thunderbolt compatible device.
  • Utilizes Thunderbolt Technology for data transfer rates of up to 10Gbps bi-directionally

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2 comments

  1. Frankie
    January 10, 2012 at 11:10 am

    Nice, shame it hasn’t taken off yet for PC users 🙁

  2. Hakuren
    January 10, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    Thunderbolt. Completely pointless addition to any PC. By the time it is ready and popular, external PCI-Express will be out in force. And because it will be much cheaper (no-Apple/Intel proprietary patents nonsense) it will eclipse Thunderbolt easily. Just like USB2 did with another Apple twisted invention – FireWire. FW by a tiny, little bit better than USB2, but expensive to implement and because of that very much useless. Anything that screwing up Apple is a good thing.

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