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Apple is expected to reveal a revamp of Mac Pro. The company’s desktop offering was last updated in June 2012 with new processors and greater RAM. Many essentials such as Thunderbolt, USB 3.0 and Serial ATA were not included. An entirely revamped Mac Pro offering is expected to be revealed later this month. Apparently the source has not divulged whether this Mac Pro revamp will be a tower, mini-tower or something else, but did mention that the announcement cloud “slip” in to May or June, around the time when Apple organizes its Worldwide Developers Conference. The source says that April announcement seems possible as of now.

Apple did say last year that a new Mac Pro model will arrive in 2013. When reached for comment, a company spokesperson said that Apple doesn not comment on rumors. For now the expected announcement of new Mac Pros is just a rumor. An European reseller said earlier this year that they had heard from Apple regarding the Mac Pro revamp being announced in a couple of months. For now, all of this is just a rumor and we can’t be sure of anything unless Apple officially confirms it.

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Hey, if you happen to be in Las Vegas at the moment, perhaps you might want to swing over to the NAB Show that is happening right now, where LaCie has taken the opportunity as well as venue to announce that they will be offering the largest range of Thunderbolt solutions certified for use with a Thunderbolt equipped Mac or PC, in the world. LaCie prides themselves in being the preeminent provider of Thunderbolt peripherals, and right now is the only manufacturer in the market that has five products in its Thunderbolt Series which will play nice with Mac OS X and Windows 7 and 8 computers.

The Thunderbolt certification program from Intel is actually a thorough process which will ensure that an optimal end user experience with both Mac and PC is delivered, which is why LaCie adheres to their normally high standards, making sure that its collection of Thunderbolt products will be able to deliver universal compatibility and reliable performances of up to 800MB/s even with the most challenging media applications. I guess when you think ThunderBolt, think LaCie!

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We have a feeling 4K is going to be a major theme at this year’s NAB, which also means we’ll be seeing a good deal of hardware that can actually handle such high-res content. Mostly, we’re talking pro cameras and the like, but at least one company will be showing off some professional-grade hard drives — after all, you’re gonna need a solid storage solution to process those supersize files, right? G-Technology just introduced the “Evolution” family of products, the centerpiece of which is the G-Dock ev, a mini-tower with two hard drive modules and dual Thunderbolt connections. What you put in those hard drive slots is up to you: the company is offering both a 9.5mm 7,200RPM drive (rated for 136 MB/s transfers) and a beefier 15mm cartridge promising 250 MB/s. Once you choose your drives, you can arrange them in a RAID 1 configuration if redundancy is important, or RAID 0 for maximum speed.

What’s more, each of the drives has a USB 3.0 socket on board, so if you needed to you could hand it to someone else in your office and let them grab whatever data they needed off the HDD. In any case, the dock will come standard with two 1TB, 9.5mm drives — look for it next month, priced at $750 for the bundle. If you later need some additional cartridges, the 9.3mm G-Drive ev will cost either $150 or $200, depending on whether you want 500 gigs or a full terabyte. The bigger 15mm G-Drive ev Plus will go for $350 (it’ll be sold with 1TB only). Lastly, G-Technology also announced the G-Drive Pro with a Thunderbolt port and claimed transfer speeds of 480 MB/s. That’ll ship this summer for either $700 or $850, depending on whether you want 2TB or 4GB of storage. All that’s in the PR after the break, along with an endorsement from Vincent Laforet himself. Must be good, right?

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So you bought a new Mac or Ultrabook in the last couple of years, but you’ve yet to plug anything into its Thunderbolt port. A company called Sonnet shows you what that little hole can do for you. Its Echo 15 Thunderbolt Dock is essentially half of a computer, adding a plethora of ports and hardware through just a single cable.

The Echo 15 has four USB 3.0 ports, a FireWire 800 port, an Ethernet port, two sets of audio in and out ports, two eSata ports and two more Thunderbolt ports. Additionally, it comes with either a DVD drive or – wait for it Mac owners – a Blu-ray drive. Finally, it also has a drive bay that can fit a 2.5″ or 3.5″ HDD or SSD. You can supply your own or pay a premium to have Sonnet include a 2TB HDD with the Echo 15.

As you can see, it’s a good way of expanding your computer and with many Mac owners, even adding functionality in the form of the Blu-ray optical drive. Sonnet is already taking pre-orders for the Echo 15, with prices ranging from $400 to $550 (USD).

[via 9 to 5 Mac]

Say, are you a HTC Thunderbolt owner who has recently updated your LTE-enabled smartphone to the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system after waiting for what seems like an eternity? If you have answered in the affirmative, then we would like to get some feedback on how your experience with Ice Cream Sandwich on the Thunderbolt has been.

so far, we have received an email concerning a less than satisfactory experience after Ice Cream Sandwich has been installed, where load times for every app are a whole lot slower, as though the Thunderbolt itself had its “Turbo” button turned off (old school gamers would know what I’m referring to). In fact, what used to be done in a jiffy such as opening the email app, text messages, or even loading a simple game would shave off a couple of seconds (or more) of your time than usual.

Perhaps there is an issue with the Ice Cream Sandwich update that could have resulted in restricting the Thunderbolt’s CPU run overtime, or could the dreaded factor of the CPU itself lacking the necessary firepower to handle Ice Cream Sandwich? The horror of it all! Perhaps someone can help a brother out here.

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