Before we hit the weekend I wanted to post up a note about Intel's latest announcement. If you don't already have Thunderbolt on your motherboard you might not be out of luck. Intel new upgrade program will let you upgrage any motherboard that has a GPIO header.
"This new initiative is called “Thunderbolt ready”, and it enables PC manufacturers to offer Thunderbolt upgradeable motherboards within desktop and workstation computers. By using a Thunderbolt card, Thunderbolt’s blazing fast speed and uncompressed video capabilities can now be added to any motherboard that includes a GPIO header (general purpose input/output header), so even if your system doesn’t have Thunderbolt it is now possible to “upgrade” to it. "
