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- newsboys, on 08/13/2008, -5/+724....In the has?
- Typhoon2009, on 08/14/2008, -4/+372"In the has put the final piece for USB 3.0 hardware development in place."
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BABELFISH IS A SUCK - orangederange, on 08/13/2008, -12/+358"When maxed out USB 3.0, will offer ten times the bandwidth of USB 2.0 – 4.8 Gb/s, which translates into a massive bandwidth of 600 MB/s."
This sounds like it'll definitely speed up the transfer of files on an external drive. - im300lbsofhoney, on 08/14/2008, -22/+278who is digging down the comments here? is there an anti-usb bury brigade? firewire lovers for mccain?
- lennybird, on 08/14/2008, -1/+138Too bad the average external hdd writes data to its disk at a measly 70-80mb/s....
- amanilaenvelope, on 08/14/2008, -6/+142it wants a cheezburger?
- mauso, on 08/14/2008, -5/+136I HAVE NO OPINION ON THIS MATTER.
- ferrariman60, on 08/14/2008, -5/+135Christ, please say it isn't a symmetrical interface this time. The rectangle is just annoying, have a shape that only fits the direction it's supposed to plug in. It's not hard, either! I just want a simple, consistent way to feel the correct direction a plug needs to be oriented to plug in.
- robbh66, on 08/14/2008, -4/+1208/14/08 - USB gains it's first "Fanboi"
- judicar, on 08/14/2008, -0/+110Just wait til Monster releases their 299.99 USB 3.0 cable with 24k gold contacts, advanced nitrogen (N2) gas-injected dielectric, and ultra high-density quad-layer shielding for superior signal transfer!.
- xtothepowerofx, on 08/14/2008, -5/+98LOUD NOISES!!!
- Smwbigboss, on 08/14/2008, -1/+91A device that just became ready yesterday isn't supported by anything yet? That's ***** amazing.
- robbh66, on 08/14/2008, -3/+90USB2 is, in theory, faster than Firewire.
In practice, however, USB2 almost never beats Firewire
Firewire is flat out a superior standard in just about every means other than price and adaptation. USB is simply cheaper so it won out. - twodollars, on 08/14/2008, -2/+86It will still take years to transfer all that porno on my computer
- ziromix, on 08/14/2008, -3/+87Dugg for "Babelfish is a suck"
made me LOL - SonnyJoeFoxx, on 08/14/2008, -0/+83In the sure did.
- HHP2K, on 08/14/2008, -2/+81Pretty sure that was meant to say Intel, but really, how does that happen?
- wukillabee, on 08/14/2008, -35/+109too bad nothing supports usb 3.0
- schnikies79, on 08/14/2008, -0/+69Fiber optic eh?
Everyone is going to love those cheap cables.. Wait till Best Buy starts ripping you off with these bad boys! - dhVyse, on 08/14/2008, -22/+88YOU'RE the only moron here. You're, not YOUR, as in YOU ARE. Christ you fail at English.
- inactive, on 08/14/2008, -8/+70Your mom has a symmetrical interface.
- darknailblue, on 08/13/2008, -6/+67Hmmmm.... Interesting. That makes me wonder though. According to http://www.slashgear.com/ieee-new-firewire-s3200-t ... USB 3.0 uses a fiber optic cable. If that's the case it sounds like the rest of the components on the computer are holding it back from being even FASTER!
- Giga, on 08/14/2008, -0/+54It's too bad my Toshiba laptop can't be firmware updated to USB 3.0 compliance. It would open up a lot of opportunities under Toshiba laptop Linux.
Seriously, that's how stupid your comment sounded. - S68x, on 08/14/2008, -3/+55Finally! No more 30MB/s for external/USB drives!
- stoikiometry, on 08/14/2008, -2/+51Don't forget gold-platinum, dual-plated connectors immersed in high-capacitance gel baked to a crisp, golden-brown topped with whip cream and a succulent cherry imported from Antarctica.
- Konrad9, on 08/14/2008, -2/+46I wish the first USB hadn't been a rectangle. Having a formfactor that you can't instantly tell as being correctly/incorrectly oriented kinda sucks...
But even still, USB is way better than having the PS/2 port, serial, parallel, game, etc. - grandinferno, on 08/14/2008, -0/+44I wouldn't mind firmware updating my microwave to a time machine. It would open up a lot of opportunities in food reheating.
- MarkusX, on 08/14/2008, -6/+48@Everybody complaining that I didn't realise what speed that is or what it all depends on:
I wrote "IMAGINE" and "FUTURE digital cameras" and I didn't mean the ones available tomorrow but SOME DAY in the FUTURE.
I am not a moron. I know that speed in general always can only be as fast as the bottleneck of the whole transfer.
So, with "future" I meant "one day, when the majority of devices have caught up" with the speed.
Thanks for the trust everybody. :-( - Vich, on 08/14/2008, -24/+64Dugg for lol, despite your silly ordered date system (month, day, year).
- mhuggins, on 08/14/2008, -1/+41Intel IN THE HOOOOUUUUSE
- 0tis, on 08/14/2008, -8/+46Everyone fails at everything. PANIC!
- Darkwave, on 08/14/2008, -11/+47Day, month, year. Does make more sence if you think about it.
Alot more countries use that than mm/dd/year.
edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Date.png - antonio97b, on 08/14/2008, -4/+36Change the ***** design. Give me something not so confusing. When I reaching around in some twister-esqe pose to get a usb device plugged in the back of my computer on the floor, I don't want to juggle around for 15 seconds _after_ I find the hole just to realize that it's not oriented right (inb4sexjoke). I know it will make things incompatible with older designed but I think we will finially need a change eventually.
- KloroFormd, on 08/14/2008, -2/+34400Mbit = 50MByte
- Spire3660, on 08/14/2008, -2/+34I run XP off an external Esata drive all the time. Has esata and usb 2.0
- hugolp, on 08/14/2008, -0/+32Not really your bad, cause USB can do 480Mbits but not sustained, meaning that it can have peaks of 480Mbits but not for a long time (just some miliseconds). In real live Firewire is faster than USB 2.0. Will see what happens with the new specifications.
- smashingmonkey, on 08/14/2008, -2/+33Did the cat who wanted the cheeseburger submit this story?
- NecroSexy, on 08/14/2008, -8/+38Plugging in a USB device busting your ass?
- tcasey22, on 08/14/2008, -0/+29Dude, what?
- schnikies79, on 08/14/2008, -1/+29That won't stop monster from making one. It will be low oxygen too.
- lolwutpear, on 08/14/2008, -1/+28FTA: previous versions are not supported
That's bothersome. - CalcProgrammer1, on 08/14/2008, -0/+27And it's only 2 feet long! Of course, if it were any longer than that, the signal would degrade and the resulting data would not be perfectly exactly the same as it was when it entered the cable at the other end, even though it doesn't matter because it's digital and it all gets turned back into 1's and 0's at the end device, rendering the fancy cable totally and completely outrageous and stupid.
Kinda like Monster's 5 foot HDMI cables that have to have gold plated, ultra shielded, insanely high quality construction in order to "maintain signal quality"...the signal, being digital, won't degrade at all even in the super cheap stuff over such a short distance! - InfiniteNothing, on 08/14/2008, -1/+27Firewire lends itself more to streaming data. I don't see why people insist on one tool fits all.
- Elranzer, on 08/14/2008, -1/+27SSDs write even slower than conventional hard drives. They're only faster when it comes to reading.
- robbh66, on 08/14/2008, -1/+27They ban you on Gizmodo for that comment now.
Would be awesome if they would do that here too. - megamod, on 08/13/2008, -4/+29You know they just finally confidently released these specs because now they know that they're one step ahead of firewire again. If that wasn't the case would have kept on working on it.
- 37RUSSK4N, on 08/14/2008, -3/+26wroooong ^^^^
- nerdherder, on 08/14/2008, -1/+23whoosh
- jasmus, on 08/14/2008, -0/+22I know. They are saying USB 3 is 10 times faster at 4.8Gbit. If USB 2 was 400Mbit it should be 4Gbit.
I had it arounf the wrong way. Firewire = 400, USB 2 = 480.
My bad. - KloroFormd, on 08/14/2008, -0/+22$150 for a 3-ft EMI-shielded fiber optic cable sounds good to me!
(Yes, I realize EMI has absolutely no effect on an optical cable) -
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