Apple To Introduce Light Peak With MacBook Pro
It looks like Apple has more surprises in store for us, and the latest one won't have anything to do with iPads or iPhones or iPods. It seems that Apple has cranked up a new high-connection technology that it will be unveiling with its new line of MacBook Pros on Thursday, Feb. 24.
Apple and Intel have been working together for some time on a new transfer technology, which they call Light Peak. Apple first contacted Intel in 2007 with plans to create an interoperable transfer standard that would eradicate the need for multiple transfer protocols like USB ad Firewire. Initial talks were held between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Intel CEO Paul Otellini. The technology debuted at Intel's Developer Forum in September 2009.
Light Peak is capable of transferring an entire Blu-Ray movie in less than 30 seconds. With all that power, it was unsure what Apple was going to do with Light Peak.
It seems that since the MacBook Air has become so popular, the MacBook Pro doesn't seem worth the extra money to some people and sales were lagging. (The fact that you get a CD player—missing from MacBook Air—doesn't seem to thrill anyone anymore.) However, with the addition of Light Peak, the early adopters would naturally edge toward the higher-end Pro computers.
Also, Apple may not use the name Light Peak when it unveils the technology to consumer. (Update: It probably will be called Thunderbolt.) It will just show off one heck of a fast computer.
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