One of the selling points for the recently updated Apple Cinema Display is that it also acts as a hub for additional devices with USB 2, Firewire, and Gigabit Ethernet ports. What if you want those ports but don’t need the monitor to go along with it? Belkin hopes to satisfy your need with its new Thunderbolt Express Dock it showed off recently at the Intel Development Forum.

The $50 Thunderbolt cable has been found to contain a total of 12 chips, one Gennum GN2033 chips on each side of the connector, as well as additional support chips, resistors, and plenty of smaller electronic parts. The Gennum chip works as a transceiver that allows for reliable data transfer at remarkable speeds, merely using cheap copper cables to do so.

G-Technology is known for their smooth lines and clean designs. The G-Drive Q is no exception. It’s the classiest way to add storage to your Mac. It’s a great way to add gigabytes to your Mac for any of the great reasons that you might have, whether that would be backing up home movies or important documents, adding more space for TV recordings, or just plain being responsible with Time Machine.

So, the Mac Mini finally received its much wanted update; rather quietly, with no events or notifications. Judging by the front exterior, there’s not that much different. So, what has actually changed? Is it worth investing in now, or should hold off for later models? To give you some idea, the rumored images that you likely saw around the net these past few weeks were, in fact, the new Mac Mini. Well, not the version with 17 USB ports unfortunately.

Let’s face it; you really can judge pretty about anything just by looking at it. Okay, maybe that’s not completely true, and in the case of the G-DRIVE mini, its beauty runs deeper than just the surface. The G-DRIVE mini is a MacBook Pro user’s dream come true…as far as external storage is concerned anyway. It’s a fanless, triple interface, aluminum encased, external hard drive designed with your Mac in mind. It’s essentially a laptop hard drive inside of an aluminum case with a bunch of connection options. The case looks similar to a Mac Pro, with its front grill and a single piece of aluminum wrapping around the body. When you plug it in, you just know it was made for your Mac, and doesn’t that feel good? Yes. It does.

Apple has announced the refreshed MacBook Pro, and almost all of the rumors were spot on.

Here’s a breakdown of the features on the new MacBook Pro.

• Precision aluminum unibody enclosure
• Glass covered, LED backlit screen.
• Dual GPUs. Both new NVIDIAs, one 9400M, and a 9600M GT.
• Glass multitouch trackpad
• Black keyboard
• Mini Display Port connector capable of driving a 30 inch display
• Firewire 800 port
• .95 inches thin
• 37% smaller packaging

Details and images after the break.

We’ve all heard about the refresh of MacBooks and MacBook Pros. The rumors have been flying, and it’s hard to not start believing at least some of them when they all go in the same direction.

As we reported earlier this afternoon, AppleInsider is adding to the rumors with their latest about the laptops. They say (from sources who admittedly don’t have a long track record) that the new laptops are going to share design inspirations from both the MacBook Air and the current iMac. This suggests that the new design will look something like the render above, only with tapered edges.