Unveiled today in San Jose alongside the iPad mini, the intensely dense 13-inch MBP is true to the rumors -- there's a 2, 560 x 1, 600 panel, a pair of Thunderbolt ports, a full-size HDMI socket and a MagSafe 2 power connector.

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Indeed, at ten gigabytes per second in both downloading and uploading, Thunderbolt is approximately twenty times faster then USB 2.0, and twelve times faster than FireWire 800.

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Touch technology will likely be incorporated in later Ultrabook versions, and Thunderbolt technology, which is 22 times faster than USB 2.0 and is now in use in some Apple notebooks, may also become part of the package in the future.

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This system enables users to connect one half-length PCIe 2.0 adapter card to the Mac mini via a Thunderbolt cable, while allowing the connection of additional Thunderbolt peripherals to the daisy-chain Thunderbolt port.

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Fifty years ago Friday March 2, 1962 Chamberlain threw down his 100-point thunderbolt against the New York Knicks.

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This system securely mounts a Mac mini inside a specially designed 1U enclosure, which also contains one PCIe 2.0 x4 slot, a 75W power supply plus a Thunderbolt daisy-chain port.

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On one hand, you have the NUC Thunderbolt, which combines a single HDMI port and one Thunderbolt port that can be used to drive a secondary display (up to 2, 560 x 1, 440).

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Refreshes for a couple of the carrier's early LTE phones debut in October, when the Thunderbolt gets pushed aside by the virile HTC Vigor and LG gets a redo with the Revolution 2.

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