If I'm going to attach external hard drives, I'm not going to use USB 2.0 when I have Firewire 800 available.

In addition, there was an e-sata cable for the external hard drive.

I have spent hours on the phone with them and they are giving me "solutions" like erase my hard drive and reinstall the operating system; they insist that there is nothing wrong with the product

First apple blamed my USB cables (pulled them out); next my firewire 800 connection (external hard drives (pulled them out); now the thunderbolt display has no connections in it and STILL fails to finish booting into a login prompt

The only difference between that one and this one is that you can't daisy chain other Thunderbolt devices like an external hard-drive array to the Cinema display.

: I have 3 usb devices including a external DVD drive and works well- Firewire: hard-drive hooked up to the firewire as my Time

This is annoying, but if you happen to be in the middle of writing a file to an external USB 3.0 hard drive, it's scary as well.2

" Thunderbolt adapter with 2 TB Hard Drive -- Seagate 2.5" GoFlex Thunderbolt adapter with 128

This may not be a problem for some people, but if you have an external hard drive connected, a Lightning cable for new iPhones/iPods, and a printer, you will find yourself swapping cables often

I don't do any gaming, mostly just photography and the Intel graphics adapter does well driving the display for my applications

For this price, there should be an abundance of USB ports for all kinds of peripherals, such as iPhone/iPad cables, external hard drives, wireless keyboards, flash drives, etc.

The thunderbolt is fast enough to transfer everything, video, audio, network, usb, external hard drive drive

I have spent hours on the phone with them and they are giving me "solutions" like erase my hard drive and reinstall the operating system; they insist that there is nothing wrong with the product

My USB 3.0 hard drive for time capsule backups

First apple blamed my USB cables (pulled them out); next my firewire 800 connection (external hard drives (pulled them out); now the thunderbolt display has no connections in it and STILL fails to finish booting into a login prompt.

The hub is sweet as it has ethernet and another Thunderbolt, so I can connect to my network over wire and also an external hard drive

good and big i love it happy