The Blisteringly Fast Thunderbolt

Today Apple has released a refresh for the MacBook Pro line, and one of the most notable new features is the Thunderbolt port technology courtesy of Intel. To me this represents a pretty monumental shift in ports and how peripherals will interact with our computers. Consider this: Thunderbolt is twice as fast as USB 3.0. For those of you unfamiliar with USB 3.0, it's the latest iteration of the popularly used port and provides over ten times the speed of the previous generation. Thunderbolt is twice as fast as THAT. To give you a better idea, check out this graph from the MacBook Pro page on the Apple website:

It's pretty insane isn't it? I'm really curious to see how this plays out, and how much a role that Thunderbolt will play in the future of Apple's computers and computers in general.