Port authority: Belkin Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock Intel's Thunderbolt interface is the most impressive external I/O you can get on a consumer PC. But as befits a luxury interface, it comes at luxury price. There's a computer in the cable, for a start. All of this means that Thunderbolt's great promise – one cable to carry all your I/O, for easy docking – has been kept out of …
Just got one of these. While pretty much everything works fine out of the box, it turns out you need to download a tiny and none-too-obvious driver from Belkin's site to make it push more than 500mA from its USB ports to charge suckling iDevices.
Isn't the whole point of Thunderbolt that you can daisy-chain devices? So one cable from your computer to monitor A, then one from A to B, and from B to C. And you can add this hub somewhere along the chain I suppose.
As far as I know that's how it's supposed to work, is there some real world gotcha by any chance?
The smoke and possibly fire must have been photo-shopped out of the images in the article. I understand that Belkin's quality is improving though, today over 30% of their products reach their final shipping destinations without experiencing "excessive" levels of combustion.
By the way, does anyone here know the link between Belkin and Lucas Industries? I know there must be one.
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