Intel said building Thunderbolt dock
Back in the late ’90s, docking a portable to a keyboard, mouse and display was a pretty slick move. Does anyone still want any such thing in the age of wireless everything? Color me skeptical, but chipzilla’s developing a Thunderbolt-based docking system nonetheless.
To date, the only computer maker to embrace Thunderbolt has been Apple and three of its four product lines — iMac, Mac mini, MacBook — now offer the insurgent connection standard. When third-party peripheral makers get up to speed, hopefully en masse in 2012, Thunderbolt offers the promise of a single port that does everything: powered 10GBps and higher throughput for networking, graphics acceleration, peripherals, storage, etc.
That said, VRZone (via Slash Gear) reports that Intel is working on a Thunderbolt based docking system for Ultrabooks, their answer to Apple’s hot selling MacBook Air.
Why would anyone need a docking station — think proprietary and expensive — when Thunderbolt does it all [sic] with just a simple cable? Beats me, but there might be more to this than an easily dismissible dumb idea…
What’s your take?
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