Thunderbolt - so what is it?

If you are a fan of technology, in the sense that you have an idea of what a Macbook Pro or iOS is, you will have heard of Thunderboat.

Introduced in 2011 it is now standard on all Apple macbooks. Ok ok, so what is it? It is a 'peripheral connection' technology that allows both data and power to share a single connection, all of course, under high speeds, much higher than USB 3.0 or even Firewire.

Each Thunderbolt port has two channels, each of which can provide data transfer of up to 10 Gigabits per second. It's almost too fast!