Thunderbolt for $0.01

Saw online you can get the HTC Thunderbolt for a penny from Amazon Wireless plus a 10% monthly discount off your bill if you go through this link......Verizon Discount

jmhyder wrote:
Can anyone explain the "catch" on this deal? What makes the Amazon Wireless different from purchasing one directly from Verizon?
No store fronts and all that is needed for store fronts... employees, building, stock, insurance, taxes, ............
But some third party resellers have a separate contract with an ETF if you make ANY changes in the 1st 181 days of the contract, on top of the VZW contract.

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I am buying an audio interface with Firewire output, would I feed this into Firewire,USB or Thunderbolt for Garageband?

I am buying an audio interface with Firewire output, would I feed this into Firewire,USB or Thunderbolt for Garageband?

I don't have a H4 but do have a H2. Did you set the H4 as a audio interface, after you plug it in choose interface in the H4 screen?
Did you choose the H4 input channel in the track info?

Using mini display - can I also use thunderbolt for HDD?

I have a mac mini 2011, and I use both the HDMI (to a 42 inches TV) and the mini display for my working monitor (mini display to DVI, using the thunderbolt output). Currently running on Mac OS X 10.8.3 (latest)
Can I use simultaneously the thunderbolt output for an external thunderbolt capable hard drive while the miniu display is used ? If so, do I need some sort of a ''Y'' connector or what ?
If not, my other solution could be that I also stream to my Apple TV ( so maybe there is some redundancy here... thus I would not need to use the HDMI output of the mac mini and could instead use it for my main monitor through the HDMI to DVI already provided?...)
Thanks,
Rob

There is no device such as a y-cable or signal splitter
for Thunderbolt. The only way to connect multiple
devices is with devices that have a Thunderbolt
passthrough connection. Many Thunderbolt external
drives do have this capabiltity, but many don't.
You will need to make sure that the Thunderbolt
drive has a passthrough connection for daisy chaining.
Once you have such a drive, connect the drive to
the Mini via a Thunderbolt cable and then connect the
monitor to the passthrough connection on the drive in
the same manner as you currently connect the monitor
directly to the Mini's Thunderbolt port.

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Not 100% sure on this but I believe this may be what you are looking for.
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Thunderbolt for ethernet and display at same time

i need to use my thunderbolt port for both ethernet and extended display. can i split the thunderbolt?

Hello berstler
One way you can do that is with the Apple Thunderbolt Display as it has a built in Ethernet port. You may want to look at a Thunderbolt Express Dock from Belkin to see if that would be a potential solution.
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http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC914LL/B/apple-thunderbolt-display-27-inch
Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock
http://store.apple.com/us/product/HB865ZM/A/belkin-thunderbolt-express-dock
Regards,
-Norm G.

Thunderbolt for connecting monitors.

I have a macbook pro 13 (mid 2012) with thunderbolt port, what cable do i need to connect a monitor?
are thunderbolt and minidisplay two diffrent things?

Hard to say what you need since you have not told us what input ports your monitor has.
But in general, Thunderbolt and MinidisplayPort are the same thing with respect to external monitors. You need a minidisplayPort to whatever your monitor has for an input port.
Or, if your comuter and monitor have HDMI ports you don't need an adapter you just need an HDMI cable.
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Solid State or Thunderbolt for scratch drive?

My new MacPro is a speed demon - but the internal drive is TINY. I work on huge PShop files, and even with a secondary external drive designated as Scratch Disk, I get frequent promps that boot disk is almost full (its not -just virtual memory overload). So I think the thing to do is have a dedicated (external) scratch disk, that is keep mostly free. I would think that a Solid State drive would be best for speed. But they are $$$. Wondering if I would notice the difference if a Thunderbolt drive was used instead. They are comparatively more affordable, but abut 130mbps as opposed to around 400mbps.
Anyone using a similar setup?
Suggestions?
Thanks

You can still go with a Thunderbolt2 interface with a Thunderbolt case that supports PCIe and add SSDs, I would try to get the new devices, you need less, they are 3x faster than "traditional" SSDs.
Mac Pro => Thunderbolt2 => TB2 expansion case with PCIe slots, using
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Thunderbolt/External-Drive/OWC/ThunderBay-4 $449 (no drives) but dual TB2 interface
and then using the same blade technology as your internal unit you now have, meaning you should be able to use 2+ and get 2.4GB/sec. for your scratch. Basically extending your boot drive with scratch that is at least as fast or a multiple of that.
SATA Express meets the '09 MacPro - Bootable NGFF PCIE SSD ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... Last Page)
http://macperformanceguide.com/topics/topic-SSD.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2014/20141205_1810-OWC-Electra6G-960GB-throu ghput.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/Reviews-OWC-Thunderbay4-SSD-RAID0.html

Thunderbolt for Mac Pro?

Any news for thunderbolt in Mac Pro?

Anxious is what all the people asking over the last year and thinking it was needed
Your Mac Pro has more bandwidth than TB supplies
And you can learn about Thunderbolt from Apple, Intel and Wikipedia
Intel will this fall offer motherboards (PC segment) - Apple had Thuderbolt locked in for a year.
TB interface connections cost a lot more than some realized and are hoping that will go down.
A search of forum from Google would turn up a lot of threads and reasons why it makes sense on laptops but not much for us. And it is still too new and buggy even.

When will I have thunderbolt for Mac Pro?

I have Quad MacBook w/ Thunderbolt, But When will they release a Mac Pro with Thunderbolt? Anyone have any idea or heard any rumors?
Thanks Bobby

Honestly, I wouldn't even worry about Thunderbolt at this point. Yes, it has amazing potential, but there's hardly any devices that use it. Even USB 3.0 isn't really taking off. Let the people who just purchased the hardware for it be the guinea pigs. A lot may depend if the Windows market invests in the tech. It's going to be much more difficult to sell an external HD that only connects to macs.
For now, USB 2.0 works fine (Firewire if doing video editing) and even my internal Blu-ray burner works using a SATA cable. The transfer rate for both is quite acceptible for me.
I DO wonder if a plug-in card would be possible. I'm not tech savy, so not sure if the PCI Express slots supports that speed.

How do I use my late 2011 iMac ( with thunderbolt) as external monitor for laptop/Xbox or other device with hdmi as output.

May be this question has been asked thousand times. how do I use my mid 2011 iMac ( with thunderbolt) as external monitor for laptop/Xbox or other device with hdmi as output. if apple hasn't removed that feature and has just moved that functinoality to thunderbolt then how can I use it. currently there is no laptop available with thunderbolt output. no 3rd party converter available. whats the use of having feature on latest functionality if we cant use it. I wish they would have made one port has mini-dvi and other thunderbolt for backward compatibility untill some vendor comes up with converter.

It Says :
Mac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011) and iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) and later computers support Target Display Mode via Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt cable (2 m) when the source is another Thunderbolt-equipped computer.
Name one computer model/vendor which has thunderbolt as output for display + audio. this is so stupid to move to new technology without availbility of its compatible devices.

A drive for the Thunderbolt connection ?

Hi ... Is there a hard drive actually in the market that can take advantage of the Thunderbolt connection speed of my iMac Intel 27" (late 2013) ?

Hello Old Toad,
I have been reading and seaching around for a while for Thunderbolt for the rest of us. So to reply to your suggestion of Googleling the web before asking, I have been doing that for many hours. The reason why I posted this thread is that information on this topic has been pretty confusing even for a 30 year Mac addict. Please excuse inadequate terminology ... and imprecise information. As for the point I am tryning to make, I am pretty sure that I am right. If it's incorrect, please explain what I am confused about.
When reading about Thunderbolt and SSD, a newby must be pretty mixed up. Thunderbolt is a great feature until you understand that it's speed (theoretically of 1000MBps) is limited by 2 bottle necks: the drive's and the enclosure speed. You can have any Thunderbolt enclosure if it is connected through a USB 3.0 interface or if it's own speed is 100MBps, Thunderbolt is nothing to be screaming about. More, I can say that there is actually any real world external drive that can deliver at Thunderbolt or SSD speed ... at least for a respectful price for the average user. Even with a SSD drive delivering at 600MBps, the bottle neck is the enclosure's interface that is normally at USB 3.0 speed. The only drive, and it is internal, that seems to be delivering outstanding speed is Apple's SSD drive connected to the PCI express interface running at 1000MBps.
So after reading, I was pretty mixed up and also amazed that guy's out there were selling the Thunderbolt dream when even with a SSD drive installed it is limited by the USB 3 output interface. I found on the web Buffalo selling it's Thunderbolt Ministation with a SATA 1 drive running at 150MBps pretty far from the Thunderbolt pretended 1,25GBps. I also found La Cie selling their Rugged USB 3 Thunderbolt drive promissing 385MBps with a 5400rpm drive ??? G-Force is also offering G-Force Mobile at 136MBps.
Oyen Digital confirmed that as of now any of their USB 3.0 or SSD drive does not work at speeds exceeding 400MBps, meaning that USB 3.0 drive delivers speed equaling Thunderbolt drive. Even Phil0124's suggestion is running at 136MBps speed ...
So the real thing would be to have a real Thunderbolt interface speaking to the computer's Thunderbolt interface. Then we would have real Thunderbolt speed. So more than ever, I think this thread is pertinent. I would appreciate be told wrong and to benefit from anyone's experience on this topic.
If you have found a great Thunderbolt drive (running at more than USB 3.0 speed) at a convenient and affordable price ... please help us.
Best regards.

Ho do I use one monitor for OSX and Windows 8.1 bootcamp

I am a long time Mac user, but find the fairly recent Apple switch to thunderbolt for monitor input very frustrating.
For several years I have ran a Mid 2010 IMac 27" and input video from a Mac Mini running Boot Camp Windows 7 using Target Display Mode on the IMac.
This worked fine until I upgraded to a Late 2013 27" IMac and discovered that the IMac has moved to thunderbolt as the input for Target Display Mode. The new late 2013 27" IMac just will not display native Windows 7 or 8 from a Boot Camp Mac anymore.
My problem is that I have two business/job related Windows apps that must run on a native windows 7 or 8 platform, and won't function under either Parallels or VMWare Fusion.
I have tried.
And there appears to be no way to get any Windows machine with DVI or Mini Display Port output to drive a late 2013 IMac in Target Display mode.
So, with great frustration, I have concluded that I need to purchase a non-Apple 27-30" monitor, and drive it with either a Mac Mini, or my Early 2013 15" MacBook Pro retina, running one of the Macs into on of the mini-Display Ports on the monitor and a native Windows 7 or 8 machine into a second mini-display port, switching between the two video inputs. The Dell 30" monitor seems to get the nod.
Has anyone found a better solution to switching between OSX and native Windows on one monitor?
Thanks...

Hi William,
I had the same experience in December 2013 and contacted Apple about it. According to Apple it's an issue of Windows with Thunderbolt. Your older iMac from 2010 is using DisplayPort and not Thunderbolt for the Target Display Mode. Note that just the connector looks the same but it's still a different technology. Please further note that the response below does not apply for the new iMac 27" with the 5K display because this iMac does not support Target Display Mode at all, hence can't be used as external display. Of course you can still attach one or two external displays to the iMac 27" 5K.
Hope this clears things up for you and the others.
Thanks,
Martin
So, here is the important part of the official response from Apple:
"... The Thunderbolt controller in an iMac is running exclusively in host mode. As such it cannot emulate a device mode Thunderbolt display. Instead it implements a custom Target Display Mode protocol that shares video between two peer to peer machines running with both controllers running in host mode. The "client" side of the driver does not exist on Windows so windows cannot speak to the "server" half in the iMac. There are no plans to implement a client driver for Windows since there is no Thunderbolt SW stack available for Windows. The reason this used to work is that the older iMacs used DisplayPort for Target Display Mode. In this scenario the iMac was able to expose the panel in such a way that it looked exactly like a Display Port Device which Windows does have driver support for. ... "
Target Display Mode: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - Apple Support

Mac Pro 2.66 quad or MacBook Retina 2.7 quad for Logic Pro?

Hi Guys,
It has come time to replace my ageing Mac Pro in my home studio, and I am in a quandry as to what to choose.
Up until now, the sensible choice has always been a Mac Pro, because it allows a number of hard drives (separate drives for audio, and for virtual instruments) to stream at high-speed, which was not possible with a laptop using external USB or firewire drives.
Thunderbolt changes all this, and I'm now wondering whether to replace the Mac Pro with a MacBook Pro 15" Retina, and connect two external drives via Thunderbolt for my audio and virtual instruments...
The alternative is to get a newer Mac Pro, and I've noticed a demo 2.66GHz quad at a great price at my Mac dealer.
I'm really not sure which way to go. On the one hand, I like the idea of just one computer (the MacBook 15") for both studio and non-studio work, as it would mean I no longer need my 13" MacBook for non-music related tasks. I also like the idea of the main drive being SSD in the Retina. The MacBook 15" can be specced with 16GB of RAM, letting go of the previous RAM limits of earlier MacBooks. The downside is that external Thunderbolt hard drives are still incredibly expensive, and I'd need two!
On the other hand, the Mac Pro is brilliant in that it can house all the hard drives I need, is expandable port-wise (although is that really such a big deal these days?), and it would mean I have a dedicated computer in the studio just for music, and can keep my non-music stuff separate on my 13" laptop.
I'd love some thoughts on what will do a better job for me in the studio. Perhaps I've missed a key benefit of one of the approaches above, that actually puts one option significantly ahead of another!
Keen to hear people's thoughts, perhaps from people who have had experience running DAWs on both machines I'm looking at.
Thanks guys!
Mike

What are you using for an audio interface? It's not just disks...
I have a similar question, currently 8-core MacPro, and a couple of 17" MBPs for live rig and general use.
There's another option, the non-retina MBP...
There's supposed to be new MacPro next year. I would hope it's a serious rethink of the architecture. Internals via thunderbolt connectors for starters? No version of SATA will keep up with that... So... I keep my supposedly long-in-the-tooth MacPro, feed it memory, swap out eSATA card for USB 3, so I can transition external drives to something faster and get away from eSATA connectors - hate those things! OWC has a bootable SSD card that goes in a slot, which is supposedly. Much faster than any version of SATA. It's pricey, and... If I didn't think they'd be doing away with expansions slots as we know 'em, I'd score one of these, but it's a lot of cash for something that may not go over to the nextgen MacPro. I have *no idea* what it's going to be, just looking at a machine today and wondering about what they could leave off a new version, while giving the kind of power and expansion we want in-the-box as opposed to hanging off of it.
I would personally *not* buy a new MacPro today, because I have hopes for what the next one will be.
Laptops, MBPs. Love the power of the new machines! C'mon. Those geek bench scores are ridiculous, so I would score one in a sec, but have to have a strategy for my live rig. Audio interface is FireWire and I run an eSATA card in the express slot for streaming samples (rack mounted drive from Glyph). Oops, the FW audio interface can't connect and there's no express card slot so my streaming performance falls back to usb2 speeds (my Glyph has a quad interface, but not USB3). The non-retina MBP gives a FW port but doesn't have the sexy screen... Assuming cost is not an issue (not true), hanging an SSD off one of the USB3 ports would surely bring good to great sample streaming rates, but still have to get another audio interface, and then strange as it sounds, probably something over USB...
So... I ultimately decided to wait for the market for peripherals mature for the new connectors, usb3 and thunderbolt.
End of story. MacPro=next year and... Pull the trigger on a retina MBP once I'm sure my peripherals are all in place. The MBPs do go out live, so they're in Speck protective cases. Adds bulk, probably ugly bulk to a rMBP, but it beats trusting the roadies at the venue. MBP, audio interface and streaming HD all in a nifty rack case the size of a carry-on bag, even wheels and a trolley handle!
Not really a 1-2-3 answer, but these are my thoughts on the pieces of kit you seem to be considering too...

How to connect my MacBook to a monitor and TV at the same time? I have a thunderbolt, what else do I need?

I have an ASUS monitor and a SONY TV set. I have 2 HDMI cables, one for the TV and one for the monitor. I also have a Thunderbolt for my Mac and I have HDMI Pigtail Switch with 3 ports. For some reason when I connect the Pigtail Switch to the Thunderbolt and the 2 HDMIs to the Pigtail nothing happens. Anyone knows the answer?

Sounds like you're using a POP mail account.
You should get an IMAP account. such as the free one you get with iClourd.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/icloud/
Matt

How to set up a server for PPro editing (and AE finishing)?

Hello everyone,
I may be a bit offtopic with this question, but at the same time it's really related to PPro.
I never worked in any post-house facility, and I come from a very indy background, so I never had a chance to see any edit suite hook up to a server.
I am wondering how great it is, how it could help our projects? And also what are the basics to know, the stuff to avoid when you're a newbie like me (in term of server network settings)?
Right now, we're running 3 Mac Pros to edit our projects. They are all connected through Gigabit ethernet.
Our workflow involves that all Mac have the entire footage in there own drives. We're using the network only when importing new content to copy it on the 2 other Machines.
We found out that if we use Mac #1 to open a PPro project contained within Mac #2 drives (as well as the footage), it's okay but the performances are not as great as opening a project in its own drives.
So we try to copy (move) the projects in the right Mac before to work on it. Of course, everytime, we have to relink everything if we don't want Mac #1 to read the footage from Mac #2…
When it come to big projects, with lots of Red footage, it is a pain, and we usually end up using only one master machine for the edit, and it's only when it comes to finish in AE that we really start to split the project onto the 3 platforms.
So this is where the idea of a server comes in mind. Mac #1 would work on a project A, then when moving to work on project B, Mac #2 could open project A and keep working on it - no relink: the project AND the footage are all on the server.
That is my basic idea. Sound simple, but really I have no idea if it really works. Is it something I can really do on a server?
How the server really helps to keep the performance? If I see PPro's performance lowering down when accessing projects and footage from our actual simple network, is it going to be better accessing the same datas from a dedicated server.
I'm looking at the Mac Mini server with Lion Server. What Lion Server does that Lion OS doesn't do already?
I know, it sounds like completely newbie questions, but I honestly have no idea.
Can a Mac Mini with Lion Server serve the 3 Macs running Snow leopard? Or do we need to update them?
My idea is to use Pegasus thunderbolts for storage drives, plugged in the Mac Mini, then plug all the 3 Mac into the Mac Mini, with what I believe should be Gigabit Ethernet…
Am I right? A least a bit? What did I miss?
Thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge guys
Julien

If you are going DIY route, this is your only option: http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/build-your-own-affordable-san-that-iworksi
However that probably won't work with RED footage.

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