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Thunder and lightning

Thunder and lightning

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Thunder and lightning

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- Thunder! ♪ Na na na and Lightning ♪ Okay, well the Lightning part didn't work. But anyway, I want to talk about some other types of connections that we see out there in the world today, Thunderbolt and Lightning connections. So first of all, I want to start with Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt is kind of a combination of the PCIe and a display port all combined into one. Pretty much it will do anything you want (laughs) kind of port. It will drive monitors, you can charge with it, you can do data transfer! You can do anything you want with a Thunderbolt connection. Now Thunderbolt's been around for a little bit and we have three different versions. Version One runs in a two-channel kind of setup. So it's a total throughput of 20 gigabit. Version Two runs at just 20 gigabits per second. and Version Three is 40 gigabits per second which is like unreal fast. Anyway, what I want to do for starters is talk about some of the types…

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