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MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals First Peek of Thunderbolt

25.02.2011
The teardown experts at iFixit turned their attention this week to Apple's latest version of the . The Early 2011 edition looks a lot like its predecessors, with two new features on the logic board. It's the first Apple portable with a quad-core processor, , and it includes the shiny-new I/O connection for screaming data and display transfers.

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According to Intel, Thunderbolt allows you . It puts PCI Express and DisplayPort into a single, bi-directional connector, with what appears to be a dedicated 10 Gbps data channel for each. "That's nice, as you don't want your display competing with your external hard drive for bandwidth," iFixit notes.

As many as six Thunderbolt devices can chain to a single port. "That's not a problem today as we're not even aware of six products that support Thunderbolt yet," although if the I/O standard takes off, it could become an issue, iFixit notes.

What else is new?

· Upgraded wireless connectivity via Broadcom's and a fourth antenna on the wireless card.