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Originally Posted by LDS
Thats a can of worms I think.
Thunderbolt only saves you space if you don't need to use any of its peripherals. As soon as you add something like a superdrive and a thunderbolt to ethernet adaptor you suddenly have a system that takes up more desk space than a 2008 white macbook...
...and the white macbook still have a mini VGA output and a firewire port to boot.
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yes, and most people don't need those things so it *absolutely* makes sense to have a tiny connector for them on a very thin notebook. And they do make thunderbolt docks with every connector imaginable if you have a lot of legacy gear. Bulky optical media is on its way out.
Just the thunderbolt to ethernet adaptor doesn't take much more space than the cable itself.