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It's s huge problem, and another curse Apple has gotten the rest of the laptop industry to adopt. Newer ThinkPads ship with Thunderbolt instead of DisplayPort.
by MichaelGG 12y ago
It's s huge problem, and another curse Apple has gotten the rest of the laptop industry to adopt. Newer ThinkPads ship with Thunderbolt instead of DisplayPort. So if I want external monitors, I'm screwed. I can't just epoxy the port, like I did with FireWire.
- lotyrin 12y agoAFAIK, it's not Thunderbolt on Lenovos, just Mini DisplayPort+Audio, which has similar connectors and cables but excludes the PCI-alike interface for high-speed general purpose IO which this exploits.
- MichaelGG 12y agoThe W540 has Thunderbolt, but also miniDP. I guess that's OK. But seeing as how they try to ape Apple, who knows what the next gen will bring.
- lotyrin 12y agoAh, okay. I looked at a few models and only saw MiniDP, I guess some of them actually are Thunderbolt, Interesting.
- phil21 12y agoI suppose it may depend on the model, but all the modern Thinkpads I've seen rolling around the office in the past year or so come with thunderbolt.