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.

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.

To preface this article, yes it has been several months since Apple gave us the thumbs-down on FireWire by axing it from the latest round of MacBook updates (it survives on the MacBook Pro, but only in the less popular Firewire 800 form). Much has been said, though little has been done—although there is an online petition to bring FireWire back to the MacBook. But a conversation with a client and an Apple Genius at my local Apple store recently brought the issue back for a while, and it is worth sharing.