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by skorgu 5588 days ago
What happens if I plug a PC into another PC via thunderbolt?
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nepenthe 5588 days ago
Thunderstruck?

Snarky I know but I just couldn't help myself.

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skorgu 5588 days ago
I sincerely hope there's a debug option that causes it to play AC/DC in some fashion.
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ugh 5588 days ago
Hopefully the same as when you plug a Mac into another Mac via FireWire. (One of the Macs becomes the most expensive external HDD ever. This requires one Mac to reboot into the target disk mode. It would be nice if the same trick would be possible with Thunderbolt without rebooting.)
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GHFigs 5588 days ago
You don't have to use TDM. You can also use Firewire as a network interface.
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irons 5587 days ago
You have to boot into target disk mode for the same reason you can't plug one Firewire disk into two computers simultaneously.

TDM is supported in Thunderbolt, to my great glee. Terrific Firewire feature.

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tianyicui 5588 days ago
Something I really wanted is, when I connect my laptop to my home computer, my laptop can use the home computer's CPU, GPU and RAM and have an additional screen.

I believe Thunderbolt will make this dream true, since the Intel page mentioned "workstation performance expansion".

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