News - Intel’s Light Peak could launch early next year – on Macs?

[HEXUS]

Apple could lead the way as chip-giant prepares to launch next-gen interface.

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[baius]

If 10gbps (or even 100gbps) was the actual speed, these things could end up doubling-up as network interfaces, as well. One less port on the back of your MoBo.

[aidanjt]

Nevermind.

Good news by any event.

[Funkstar]

This does have implications for other interfaces too. Either Lightpeak will be adopted for networking (which they have said would be possible) or it's really going to push the price of regular 10G ethernet adapters way, way down.

Both of which will be good things

[TheAnimus]

If 10gbps (or even 100gbps) was the actual speed, these things could end up doubling-up as network interfaces, as well. One less port on the back of your MoBo.

People used to use firewire as a simple high speed interface before gigabit was afforable.

[baius]

People used to use firewire as a simple high speed interface before gigabit was afforable.

I wasn't aware of that. Thanks. For the time, FireWire would probably have saturated the speed of a single IDE HDD. It could therefore have been very useful.

I've seen USB interconnects, but only for moving files from one PC to another as a one-off. The ones I remember seeing invariably came with software to assist you with the "transfer".

[TheAnimus]

Ah firewire had out of the box TCP/IP support on Windows what-ever I was using back then