John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk a bit more about connectors before moving on to the big Apple news: new MacBook Pros with Thunderbolt i/o and the first developer preview release of Mac OS X Lion.

Links for this episode:

• Apple - Thunderbolt: Next-generation high-speed I/O technology.
  
• Apple - Mac OS X Lion
  
• Apple - The new MacBook Pro
  
• What you need to know about Thunderbolt - Macworld
  
• Bi-directional USB plug concept
  
• The Loudness War - Wikipedia
  
• A video explaining the Loudness War - YouTube
  
• HDtracks - high-quality digital music store, no DRM
  
• Apple supposedly in talks to increase the quality of the audio in the iTunes music store
  
• Thunderbolt security concerns - The Register
  
• Leaked screenshots from the Lion developer preview - MacStories
  
• More leaked Lion screenshots from AppleInsider
  
• What we know about Mac OS X Lion - Ars Technica
  
• Intel HD Graphics 3000 performance tests - AnandTech
  
• Intel's Thunderbolt technology brief (PDF)
  

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