Thunderbolt external NVidia graphics comes to Macbook Air (sort of)

[galenb]

I don't see why it wouldn't. It's got the same ports and a better CPU.

 

I doubt we'll see official solutions anytime soon though. This would do some serious damage to Apple's meticulous (and highly annoying) product differentiation.

 

Actually on the product page for the new Mac Pro, they are actually advocating the use of external expansion cassis via thunderbolt. Thunderbolt is their/Intel's tech and they are really serious about it. The design of the new Mac Pro is the very evidence of this. There are no expansion slots on it at all but it has a ton of Thunderbolt ports all over it.

 

The thing is, Thunderbolt is faster then PCIe 2x and Intel already has roadmap for it being ever faster. So very soon, it will be the same as pluging a card into your desktop computer.