Thunderbolt Technology

Thunderbolt technology is a new breakthrough technology that work like the USB port, but
allows you to daisy chain multiple devices (up to 6 devices) together.


The current copper-based generation of Thunderbolt boasts 10Gbps data transfer speeds between computers and devices that is, twice the speed of current USB 3.0 throughput. Future iterations of the specification are expected to move from copper wire to a fiber-optic connection, which Intel has said could one day allow for  throughput rates up to 100Gbps .
        Thunderbolt can transmit both raw data and audio-video information simultaneously, the technology  is also bidirectional, According to Intel, each port will be able to send and receive data simultaneously, at full 10Gbps bandwidth in both directions.
To illustrate how fast it is:

•     it take a mere 30 seconds to transfer a full-length HD movies (around 1.5 – 2.5 GB in size),

•     a mere 10 minutes to transfer a year of continuous MP3 playback.