{"id":41887,"date":"2012-01-23T09:52:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T07:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=41887"},"modified":"2012-01-23T09:54:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T07:54:21","slug":"thunderbolt-comes-to-ultrabooks-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/41887-thunderbolt-comes-to-ultrabooks-in-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbolt comes to Ultrabooks in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Acer\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/352522-Acer\">Acer<\/a>, <a title=\"Asus\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/363482-Asustek\">Asus<\/a> and <a title=\"Lenovo\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/349182-Lenovo\">Lenovo<\/a> are among a group of Ultrabook manufacturers that will add Thunderbolt I\/O ports to their devices in 2012 according to a report by <em>Digitimes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Thunderbolt was developed by Intel, and combines DisplayPort and PCI Express technologies to provide a versatile I\/O port that can be used to connect a range of devices, including monitors and external hard drives.<\/p>\n<p>Digitimes notes that the cost of adding Thunderbolt connectivity to a computer is around $20 (R159.10) which means it will only appear on high end devices for the time being.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> was one of the first companies to adopt Thunderbolt technology, and currently equips a range of computer and screens with the port.<\/p>\n<p>There are also indications from a recent patent filing that Apple may begin using Thunderbolt in iOS devices.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/01\/20\/acer-asus-and-lenovo-to-equip-ultrabooks-with-thunderbolt-ports-in-q2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various Ultrabook makers will add Thunderbolt connectivity ports to their devices in 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":41783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2006,605,947,1525],"class_list":["post-41887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-acer","tag-apple","tag-asus","tag-lenovo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41889,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41887\/revisions\/41889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}