Apple Revamps Thunderbolt Cable Lineup with Lower Pricing, Shorter Cable OptionAs noted by 9to5Mac, Apple today revamped its Thunderbolt cable lineup, dropping the price of the existing 2-meter cable from $49 to $39 and adding a new 0.5-meter cable priced at $29. Thunderbolt cables remain relatively expensive due to the electronics included inside the cables to manage the multiple protocols supported by the standard. The complexity and expense has both slowed deployment of Thunderbolt peripherals and limited support mostly to high-end devices capable of absorbing the high cost premium. Thunderbolt cables have so far been limited to traditional copper cabling, but vendors are just beginning production on optical cables for the standard. The optical cables will allow for much longer cable lengths, but will not be able to provide power to peripherals as copper cables can. Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories • Tweetdeck Updated With Predictive Typing and Performance Upgrades • Pebble Smart Watch to Begin Shipping January 23 • CES 2013: Portable Speaker Roundup • Firefox For Mac Gets Updated With Retina Support • Apple Seeds Build 12D50 of OS X Beta 10.8.3 to Developers
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