Can I get Apple Thunderbolts to Work with my hp workstation?

[fisherjl1590]

Can I get Apple Thunderbolts to Work with my hp workstation?

Thank you

 

[rclarke250]

I have no idea what you are asking, since Thunderbolt is an interface. Are you talking an external hard drive? a Display? If you are talking about the LCD display, then no, different signals, the Thunderbolt uses a signal level on par with the PCIe bus, not the video out signals from a video card. Although there is talk that Intel is debating releasing a Thunderbolt PCIe reference for ODM's, they have not done so yet. And ASUS has this for some of there latest boards.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-thunderbolt-Z77-H77-pcie,15925.html

But for a regular PC, nope, sorry , not yet. Also Gigabyte and a few other motherboard makers do have native support built into the high end enthusiast boards, they won't fit into the HP case, and would need a much larger power supply. Might as well have a new PC built or build one yourself. Intel is leaning toward releasing a reference board because Thunderbolt is not doing well being mostly on high end pc boards and Apple, and not supported on mainstream pc's.