So what's up with thunderbolt?

[Hugo Drax]

Its 2015 and yet it is not standard on motherboards like USB3 is thunderbolt pretty much going the same route as FireWire?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Its 2015 and yet it is not standard on motherboards like USB3 is thunderbolt pretty much going the same route as FireWire?

Probably.

Every TB peripheral basically has to have its own built-in PCI-E card. So it'll never be cost-competitive. It'll get killed by a combination of USB 3 and (eventually) integrated 10GbE.

 

[Hugo Drax]

It seems over engineered and a solution looking for a problem.

 

[phexac]

Works great for the Apple Thunderbolt display since they ensure their laptops match it on the other side. Outside of that, probably will never be used for anything ever.