Quote Originally Posted by neuroanatomist


It's a new I/O technology. There are Thunderbolt hard drives, but no CF card readers yet. An exec inCanon’s Video Products Group, stated that the company is “excited about Thunderbolt technology and feel it will bring new levels of performance and simplicity to the video creation market.” Maybe means a Thunderbolt port on some future Canon products (camcorders, if not dSLRs).

It seems that there billing this as a consumers substitute for a MAC Pro.


APPLE Says:


"Now you can create a professional video setup for your MacBookPro or iMac, just as you would for your MacPro. If you&rsquo;re a video editor, imagine connecting high-performance storage, a high-resolution display, and high-bit-rate video capture devices to handle all the post-production for a feature film &mdash; right on your MacBook Pro or iMac. Thunderbolt I/O technology allows you to daisy-chain up to six new peripherals &mdash; such as the Promise Pegasus RAID or LaCie Little Big Disk<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small; color: #666666;"]1</sup> &mdash; plus an <span class="nowrap"]Apple LED Cinema Display"


John


Maybe this is what Canon's guy was really saying in marketing speak: "Now professional grade video proccessing will be available to the masses, and more people will buy new Rebel's with video capability because of it."


Its all good though.