We just got our new 15-inch MacBook Pro review unit, and although it looks almost exactly the same as the previous MBP, it has that fancy new ThunderBolt icon on the side, which ought to make I/O nerd hearts flutter the world over. Unfortunately, there aren't any ThunderBolt peripherals on the market yet, so we can't really test the new connection yet -- but we can report that backwards compatibility with Mini DisplayPort performs as advertised, and that all of our display adapters worked without issue -- the first time we can ever remember Apple switching a standard and not requiring all new dongles.
As for performance, we were given the $2,199
