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New Thunderbolt Adapters Will Connect to FireWire 800 and Gigabit Ethernet

By Kyle Wagner Published June 11, 2012, 1:43 pm ET

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Apple’s new next gen MacBook Pros are absurdly thin and powerful, but all that beef and skinny comes with a price: it’s missing a few of the larger ports. That’s made less of a problem with the new Thunderbolt adapters that connect to Firewire 800 and Gigabit Ethernet.

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