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This ugly box represents my excitement for Apple and Intel’s Thunderbolt port. Because Thunderbolt essentially combines the DisplayPort and PCIe protocols in a serial stream, it’s possible to create this PCIe breakout box. Open it up, plug in a RAID controller, audio card, video capture card, graphics card, or an ultra-fast SSD card, then connect the box to your MacBook as you please. Hopefully, OEMs take the next step and create a “DeskDock”: a box that will grant your laptop the flexibility and powerful capabilities of a desktop. It would look like a normal desktop case, with space needed for spare harddrives, PCIe cards and such. The only thing it would be missing is a CPU, which your laptop would kindly provide anytime you weren’t mobile.

This ugly box represents my excitement for Apple and Intel’s Thunderbolt port.

Because Thunderbolt essentially combines the DisplayPort and PCIe protocols in a serial stream, it’s possible to create this PCIe breakout box. Open it up, plug in a RAID controller, audio card, video capture card, graphics card, or an ultra-fast SSD card, then connect the box to your MacBook as you please.

Hopefully, OEMs take the next step and create a “DeskDock”: a box that will grant your laptop the flexibility and powerful capabilities of a desktop. It would look like a normal desktop case, with space needed for spare harddrives, PCIe cards and such. The only thing it would be missing is a CPU, which your laptop would kindly provide anytime you weren’t mobile.

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