A few weeks ago Appletell previewed some of the upcoming Thunderbolt accessories, including an external hard drive from LaCie called Little Big Disk. At the time, this was still in development, but thankfully the wait is over and it’s now available at the Apple Store in both HDD and SSD models. Just remember to buy Apple’s Thunderbolt cable, which comes separately and costs $49.

It’s taken a little while, but there are three new Thunderbolt devices appearing on the market. Sonnet Technologies will have an Echo ExpressCard/34 Thunderbolt Adapter which lets you connect older devices to your newer Mac. Blackmagic Technologies has their UltraStudio 3D which provides portable video capture and playback for professional editors. And LaCie will have a Little Big Disk, an external storage device with either hard drives or solid-state drives in a built-in RAID 0 configuration.

The only way to really know how something works is by taking it apart and the folks at iFixit did just that with a 21.5″ Thunderbolt iMac. While many of the components were the same from the previous iMac there were a few surprises. For instance, it’s now possible to replace the CPU and the graphics card separately instead of having to replace the entire logic board if either of them fail, which can get quite costly out of warranty.

Rumor has it that new MacBooks are expedcted to be unveiled on October 14th (yes, that’s an Apple Tuesday). Seth Weintraub of Computerworld noted that a re-design of the MacBook Pro is needed, and he took some educated guesses as to what the next-gen MacBook Pros may look like…

Electronista reports that Lenovo may be prepping an “Air-killer” already. Following on the heels of the Macworld announcement of the MacBook Air, Gizmodo received a tip stating that the upcoming ThinkPad X300 would also have a 13.3 inch LED backlit screen, would weigh in at 2.5 pounds, half a pound lighter than the MacBook Air. more »

Last week at CES our parent site Gadgetell had a crew covering the event, live blogging keynotes, showing off cool gadgets, etc. Well in all that hustle and bustle, one of our crew members had a small information exchange with a fairly credible source about Apple’s soon to be released MacBook Pros.