Harrison sees a lot of potential for Thunderbolt in the portable market. “We’re even looking into releasing carrying bags for the Pegasus, since the main launch vehicle is the MacBook Pro,” he added. “People with small, mobile studios who use Final Cut, Adobe Photoshop, Maya 3D and other popular bandwidth intensive applications stand to benefit a lot from this technology.”

Along with Pegasus, Harrison noted that Promise has another Thunderbolt-compatible product in the works as well, though specifics aren’t available at this time.

Hard drive maker was also prepared for Intel’s Thunderbolt announcement, unveiling . While the company didn’t respond to a request for comment by the time of publication, a press release announcing the product says the external hard drive was created with mobile and media professionals in mind and that it’s designed to take advantage of Thunderbolt’s impressive transfer rates with the large audio and video files it stores.

Other peripheral makers aren’t ready to disclose specific plans for Thunderbolt. has yet to publicly announce a Thunderbolt-compatible product, though public relations manager Heather Skinner spoke highly of the technology to .

“We have the tech in-house and are staging it now”, Skinner said. “Whatever the customers embrace, we want to support it, and Thunderbolt is something we’re looking at and working on.”