startup thunderbolt macbook pro with ssd

That photoshop demo was pretty impressive, buy my Mac Pro Dual Proc 3.0GHz Quad core from 2007 still boots 10.4.11 in the 15-17 sec range, Snow Leopard in the 30 sec range.
 
That seemed very slow, actually. SSD should be faster.My Mbp 2008 with added 3rd party 500gb drive is about the same. Makes me not want to upgrade! Best thing about new Mbp is Light Peak.
 
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Thunderbolt is nothing you need to mention.
BOOT not uses thunderbolt.

People don't understand BUT thunderbolt don't provide more internal performance, thunderbolt is only a external port, FROM --> TO hi-perf. technology, but it doesn't have any to do with boot. Boot fatest is provided from internal SSD not by thunderbolt.
 
Tony Hernandez said:
Thunderbolt is nothing you need to mention.
BOOT not uses thunderbolt.

People don't understand BUT thunderbolt don't provide more internal performance, thunderbolt is only a external port, FROM --> TO hi-perf. technology, but it doesn't have any to do with boot. Boot fatest is provided from internal SSD not by thunderbolt.
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I hear you.
I mentioned thunderbolt because it helps identify exactly which macbook pro I'm referring to and as you yourself well know there is a limited number of words you can put in a thread title. Therefore in one word the reader knows which mac I'm talking about.
 
Yeah, I'm aware of the fact that TB is an external port, but I'm under the impression that TB *implies* better internal performance, because they will have to create a better bus on this thing to get the increased bandwidth into and out of the machine's RAM faster, or it will be the bottleneck. They are using the new Sandybridge chips from Intel, which apparently has 4 or 8 way multitasking on the i7 chips (optional highest 2.3Ghz priced 15" come with 8 MB RAM cache, larger than the lower priced 15"s) as opposed to 4 way, along with a larger cache, which may be how they are pushing more data into and onto the TB port. My guess is that TB will run faster in future versions of the machine, as they optimize it to the bus. But I'm not a chip expert, so maybe I'm missing something here...

Anyway, I'm surprised at how long this took to boot, as my older MBPro boots about the same. Wonder if something is not configured right? Do you have some programs loading at boot?
 
Hi,

..because they will have to create a better bus on this thing
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Thunderbolt don't use a new bus. They just go through the PCIe bus and then outs through a display cable.

.. as opposed to 4 way, along with a larger cache, which may be how they are pushing more data into and onto the TB port
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Its indifferent cause data transfers have no relation with CPUs

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Thunderbolt can be implemented on graphic cards which have access to DisplayPort data and PCI express connectivity, or on the motherboard of new devices such as the MacBook Pro ..
but i suspect that this will mean, that on the same way, video graphic data(graphic card) will need to survive within thunderbolt data (hdd) on the same bus. And that's not good cause go in detriment of video or hdd, or for both if at the same time.
 
Uses the same bus the PCIe uses. So thats not good from a teorical point of view. As for practical use -for video purposes- time will tell ..
 
8string said:
That seemed very slow, actually. SSD should be faster.My Mbp 2008 with added 3rd party 500gb drive is about the same. Makes me not want to upgrade! Best thing about new Mbp is Light Peak.
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The Apple SSDs are notorious for being on the low-end of the speed spectrum. Best bet is to purchase a regular MacBook Pro and then add in your own Intel-branded SSD (some of the fastest drives on the market).
 
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