To illustrate how bad a job Intel has done on the marketing of this technology, I for a long time thought that display port was a closed mac-only thing, and until today I thought the same of thunder port.<p>If they want to increase adaptation, maybe they should consider marketing it more, and outside of sanfran's macbook-based hipster blogger circles.
As the article comments note, Thunderbolt is also not taking taking off because Intel demands all Thunderbolt peripherals have OS X drivers.<p>Companies like Asus/Silverstone (and more who don't spring to mind right now) have created Thunderbolt GPU enclosures to allow laptops to do 3D work. However Intel won't let them go to market because they don't have OS X drivers, and Apple has no interest in supporting Thunderbolt GPUs when they cold be selling people additional Macs instead.
Damn, a Thunderbolt 2 PCIe card with two ports costs ~55€. That would make for one hell of a replacement for 10G Ethernet. Double the speed <i>and</i> cheaper. Does anyone know how the linux support for this is?
Windows users are not going to like Thunderbolt until Microsoft fixes the Windows drivers. (Hint: Thunderbolt is 5 years old, the drivers still don't work. Don't hold your breath.) If you can't plug in a device reliably on an external connection it is pretty much useless. Maybe sometime after that motherboard vendors will stop hobbling the interface chips.<p>Thunderbolt pretty well rocks on OS X.<p>I wonder what the state of Linux is. And I mean <i>really</i> is. I still have corrupted MP3s in my library from Linux's firewire support. It almost always put the blocks in the right spot on the disk. (This was in the 90s or early 00s, must be better now, probably.)
Until thunderbolt stop being a proprietary technology, I hope it will stay where it is right now: ready to disappear into irrelevance when OCuLink (finally) comes out.