Submitted 5 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/12671116
Intel’s new Thunderbolt Share provides file and screen sharing without hurting network performance
Freaking finally. How wasn’t this a thing before? By this point I’d expect a wireless version lol. But looks amazing and can’t wait to get it
Yeah, this sounds amazing. It also sounds like it’s being limited, unfortunately, and will require additional license fees from the OEM on top of the Thunderbolt 4 ports. Hopefully, that’s just for the launch and it opens up soon.
Apple has had “target disk mode” for a long time where you boot one computer into a special mode but that’s basically just for transferring files and not anything like as advanced. I know iPads (and I assume Android tablets) can be a second screen over wireless using third party software but it’s not uncompressed video with disk access last I checked.
I know iPads (and I assume Android tablets) can be a second screen over wireless using third party software but it’s not uncompressed video with disk access last I checked.
The video compressed (how much depends on your network speed, it’s only noticeable on low bandwidth connections). And it’s far more than just video - you can copy files over the connection. Keyboard/mouse/touchscreen/stylus inputs are sent over it, and video camera/microphone data can be streamed in real time as well.
And it’s not just iPads, I do it all day every day between my desktop and laptop Mac. iPhones and Apple TVs can do it too.
It works best over thunderbolt but it’s usually done with wifi — always a direct wifi connection that bypasses your router because the amount of bandwidth required is so high that if you sent it to a router and then to a computer… your wifi would collapse under the load.
Yeah, I’ve used third party software to get tablets as wireless monitors, but it has mostly sucked. Hopefully it’ll be opened soon. Tho if they started with it closed, that’s how it’ll remain. Apple has the target disk mode, but doesn’t the laptop need to be shut down for it to work? Besides, APFS or whatever they use is useless when compared to literally anything else
downpunxx@fedia.io 5 months ago
step back in time ladies and germs, to a moment when local area networks don'e exist, where wifi has yet to be fathomed, and be amazed at the brand new technology of, wait, let me get this right, tethering your laptop to your desktop with a direct cable?
magic and wonders ladies and gentlemen, miracles in our time. hahahahahahahaha.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This new thunderbolt feature hilariously does what I once did with RS-232.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 5 months ago
With just a smidge better throughout!
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I mean, it is a dream. Make a simple thing so fucking complex that no one can replicate it, make it branded so that normies would want only it, and make it some many dollar seller component.
To all proponents of “tech should be available to people not understanding it”, how’s your day going?
atocci@kbin.social 5 months ago
Why doesn't this already work the way I would expect? You can plug your smartphone into your PC and access its entire filesystem, and they're basically both computers. Why can't this work the same way between PCs? Or why can't I access my PC's files from my phone?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 months ago
Theoretically it should be possible. You can at least install MTP on Linux PCs and I bet there’s something for Windows as well. So I think at that point it’s up to the smartphone to have client support.
Meh, but I’m too lazy to test this.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 5 months ago
Early smartphones had to unmount the sdcard so you can access it from PC, which is why mtp was invented. That’s why.