it's useless because it doesn't use a processor that hasn't even launched?
It's useless for me. What am I supposed to do with a friggin Iris? Fuck that, I want a real numbercruncher, even if I have to wait.
So, I'm not complaining, they've got a great lappy, just not quite what I imagined for myself, so I'll hold out.
I can't find the link, but there was something about TB2 not being connected directly to the CP lanes.
Ah, there it is:
Intel has never allowed motherboard vendors to hang the Thunderbolt silicon / add-in card off the CPU's PCIe lanes. [...] It would have been great to have a new version of Thunderbolt with PCIe 3.0 along with the X99 launch. But, we already know it is not going to be the case till Skylake launches.
From: http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
So that seems the single most important update we've had in years, IMHO.
Hopefully I'll be able to get myself something like a WS 60, but with proper TB support that will be able to run OS X. I.e. metal case, two drive bays, lots of RAM, TB2-3, USB 3(.1), and a quadra or the like.
I'm willing to accept binary blobs on my 'puter for such specs, since I have a Free router that does the network filtering anyway.
In any case, they got pretty close to what I want except for the TB and the GPU. I might get one of these for my wife in order to support them.