[bouvin]

Ah, the good old days, where hooking up a parallel cable between two PCs and running LapLink was a power move [1]…

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31013707

[jimohalloranau]

"Isn't this just LapLink with a Thunderbolt cable" was my immediate thought when I read this. If you're around long enough everything is shiny and new, even the things that you thought were long ago killed by better solutions (like Ethernet in this case).

[stephenr]

For general networking, sure Ethernet is a better solution, but I also don't imagine you're going to get 18Gbit/s+ from regular desktop/laptops over ethernet, regardless of how much gold plating it has.