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As a 2011 MacBook Air user, my biggest envy is USB 3.0. Thunderbolt accessories have been few and far between, and then priced at an exorbitant premium.

But hey, they finally made a Thunderbolt Firewire adapter cable.



USB 3 accessories are pretty far and few between too, aren't they? What do you actually want to plug in to that port?


My external hard drive :-)

I throw a lot of data around. I like backups. The difference between USB2 and USB3 will be non-trivial for me.


Seagate has a $99 ThunderBolt dock available but figure an extra $50 for a cable to go with it. It's designed for their GoFlex enclosures but I think it works fine with a bare drive too.


cheap extra hard drive dock would be first

http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-ST0022U-Plastic-Docking-St...

all the thunderbolt ones are very expensive.


Not sure I'd use a Thermaltake product with mixed reviews as an example here...


I sure am glad that I bought a 2 TB USB 3.0 last year before I had anything with USB 3.0 ports!




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