engadget.com — Not only is Apple complicit in the development of the Light Peak standard, but the company actually brought the concept to Intel and asked them to create it. More to the point, the new connector will play a hugely important role in upcoming products from Cupertino.
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Closed AccountSep 27, 2009
I'm so glad we stuck with these archaic technologies over the years, in fact i just need 1,000,000 floppies to go to transfer this entire movie off of my computer!!!
gaymathmanSep 27, 2009
I find it funny that a post that is only pointing out good things about apple (above) gets dugg up quite far, while one pointing out their many unfriendly practices while still defending them below gets buried...
Closed AccountSep 28, 2009
It has to connect through PCI Express because no other current interface has enough bandwidth. If you read the actual article you will see that at peak it hits 712 Megabytes per second which does indeed work out to 5.56 Gigabits per second. USB 3 isn't even shipping yet and there are *already* mass storage devices that it is too slow to handle. Who wants to bet that something even faster than this won't come along in the next couple of years?Also, you might notice that USB 3 doesn't hit 4.8 Gigabits per second anywhere but in theory."The raw throughput is 4 Gbit/s, and the specification considers it reasonable to achieve 3.2 Gbit/s or more after protocol overhead."<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus#USB_3.0" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus# ...</a>
diggimatorOct 2, 2009
iPod speeds are vastly inferior compared to the max. capacity USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 has to offer. Therefore iPod transfer speeds have always been the same. Even if iPod could max out a connection, in all intents and purposes, USB 2.0 has caught up to the point where the speeds are virtually the same. But why are we talking about this, anyway? The future is FireWire 800+ and USB 3.0+.
theabsinthehareOct 4, 2009
Remember guys, apostrophes don't stand for "Holy s**t, here comes an S!"
pillcounterdOct 5, 2009
There was a issue with the temporal displacement device; the 80s was NOT her intended destination.
Closed AccountOct 6, 2009
As long as apple can make incompatible cables and connectors for it they will be happy.
Closed AccountOct 6, 2009
Intel does the work, apple just comes along for the ride.
balancedOct 9, 2009
I think that is his point.
ophelloOct 13, 2009
wrong wrong wrong. it will have power too you idiots.
ophelloOct 13, 2009
FOR f**kS SAKE: It POWERS THE DEVICES TOO. COPPER WIRES.