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No USB 3.0 is surprising/bad.
by eof 16y ago
No USB 3.0 is surprising/bad.
- pluies 16y agoIt might be Intel trying to impose their Light Peak format. They already decided to postpone USB3 in their motherboards in favor of Light Peak. Maybe the sweetheart deal with Apple over being the first ones to implement this tech included a "let's not do USB3 too fast, shall we?" clause.
- wmeredith 16y agoSeems to me like they skipped it for Lightpeak, which is also surprising/good.
- TillE 16y agoIs there any technical reason they'd stick with USB2? Politically, I think they want to skip it and push "Thunderbolt" as the better standard, since USB3 adoption is still pretty low. Just look at their comparison chart: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/performance.html http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/performance.html
- gamble 16y agoProbably because Intel's chipsets won't support USB 3 until next year. Current PC motherboards are supporting it with third-party controllers, which presumably Apple didn't want to bother with.