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![]() This makes it difficult to produce Thunderbolt peripherals. I have talked to many of the companies that produce (or wish to produce) Thunderbolt peripherals, and all sing the same refrain: Official Intel Thunderbolt chips remain scarce and expensive. In just over a year of availability, Thunderbolt peripherals have been scarce. Where Are All the Thunderbolt Peripherals I was wrong: The Apple Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapter really is a full PCI express device, complete with its own Ethernet controller! This is easily the smallest and cheapest Thunderbolt peripheral to date, and suggests a bright future for similar devices in the future. How could Apple produce such a compact and inexpensive Thunderbolt adapter? I assumed it was just a USB device, or leveraged an onboard Ethernet chip in the MacBook Pro. While purchasing the new MacBook Pro, Apple asked if I wanted to add a Thunderbolt to Ethernet Adapter for just $29. The Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapter is truly a marvel: Compact and inexpensive, it’s a whole generation beyond all other Thunderbolt peripherals! Since there were no major feature omissions apart from Gigabit Ethernet, I decided to buy the new model. I switched from a 15 inch MacBook Pro to a 13 inch aluminum unibody model last year, but I missed the high-resolution display. As soon as I saw the announcement of the next generation MacBook Pro with Retina display, I knew I needed to have one.
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