Avid Protools and Thunderbolt

The video below is from IDF 2010 dated DEC 1, 2010, it is a demonstration on Bridge technology using a laptop PC platform with lightpeak integrated also known as the “Thunderbolt”.
The laptop is connected to a prototype Avid Pro Tools HD audio interface and the computer is running Pro Tools HD. Obviously, there are no PCI Express cards in sight.

Avid is wasting no time getting their Product ready for this thunderbolt technology.
This would eliminate the use expansion system, in which would become sooner or later a technology of the past.

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Comment by Dan Logan on April 27, 2011 at 3:55pm: Discussion on thunderbolt and Avid
go to this link:
http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=299056&highlight=Thunderbolt

Here is another expansion chassis solution from Sonnetech, it is called EchoExpress,
http://www.sonnettech.com/news/nab2011/index.html

if they have a model that holds or can accommodate more that one card, it would be super solution can wait to see that gig

Comment by ALLAN DANGERFIELD on April 29, 2011 at 9:26am: As this technology is approaching I would like to say, on behalf of hundreds/thousands of Pro Tools users, that a new Thunderbolt interface, cable and chassis to the original HD cards,

replacing the PCI/ Expresscard interface and the much "too short" 1.5 m. cable, will be very welcome to a large & professional society.

After all, TDM processing power is not replaced by the Light Peak protocol.

Also, there is a question about RAM. Would it be possible to add a chassis with extra RAM, so that

Pro users could get up to 64 GB on their laptops?

That would really be helpful, with several Pro applications nowadays recommennding 16GB RAM minimum.