Read more.Native Windows and Intel support still 18 months off, according to industry heavyweights
Read more.Native Windows and Intel support still 18 months off, according to industry heavyweights
The thing is, other than fast SATA drives, what needs USB3 bandwidth?
Web cams don't, nor do printers or just about any other peripheral I can think of. A lot of these devices saw a benefit from USB2, the same cannot be said with USB3. It's like moving from DVD to BluRay, yes it's better, but it isn't ground breaking like the move from VHS to DVD.
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I agree it is needed, no doubt about that. Bigger, faster, harder, stronger and all that
But I just don't see it as the leap USB2 was. Remember when you couldn't even get external 1x DVD-R drives on USB because it couldn't handle the bandwidth?
What's the theoretical bandwidth on a wireless-N link? Must be close to saturating a USB2 connection, I'd've thought...?
Frankly, I see no downside to increasing the bandwidth available to peripherals. It's not going to hamper the ones that don't need it, and it'll help the ones that do - USB storage being the obvious one. Being able to run backups to USB drives that takes minutes rather than hours would be a godsend...
I believe it is up to 300mbit for 802.11n
edit actually, 600mbit is possible, but I haven't heard of any devices actually using this method of encoding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11n#Data_rates
Wouldn't be surprised if USB3 is mainstream before we se 802.11n devices hitting that
Exactly, it's about consumer demand, not whether hardware exists or not.
Get out of the wrong side of bed this morning?
No-one is saying anything about it having to come from somewhere - that's obvious. I was just correcting you about the lack of real hardware point. Nothing more, nothing less.
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