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Any New iMac Buyers Worried About USB 3.0!

Evangelion said:
What does USB3 offer that FireWire 800 does not offer?

Fact is that if you think that you should wait because some "new and improved" technology is on the horizon, then you would be waiting forever. There's ALWAYS something new and improved being released.

Do you NEED USB3? Why? For HD's you already have FireWire. For most peripherals USB2 is plenty fast. If you really, REALLY need it (which I doubt), then go ahead and wait. If not, now is as good time to buy as any. If you feel like waitin for USB 3, then what about other technologies? what about Light Peak?
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I need it faster than USB, and FW800 works well for me.
 
IMHO USB 3 is not something that I'm going to worry about just now. I mean, there is no real reason to have it for day to day use of equipment.

Video professionals use firewire.

Photographers use SD cards or similar.

People who need faster data transfer speeds on their networks use NAS and gigabit ethernet...

Light peak will be an interesting development, apart from connecting more than one screen through one port I cant see a massive use for it in the forseeable future - unless we start working with 3D screens at HD resolutions anyway....
 
From Wikipedia

Although Light Peak is early in its development, Intel demonstrated a fully functional system at the 2009 Intel Developer Forum (IDF). Their demonstrations were being run on a prototype Mac Pro motherboard, using Light Peak to run two 1080p video streams, LAN networking and storage devices over a single 30 m long cable.At the show, Intel claimed that Light Peak equipped systems will begin to appear in 2010.

Although the history is not yet well recorded, shortly after the IDF presentation technology blog Engadget reported that Light Peak had been developed by Intel in collaboration with Apple. The article claimed that Apple had been working on the technology since 2007, around the time that ClearCurve was introduced, and that Apple CEO Steve Jobs personally asked Intel CEO Paul Otellini to take up development of the system as a new standard, stating that an all-optical interconnect was the only way to proceed.

However, cnet later reported that other "industry sources" dispute this claim. This report states that Apple was contacted by Intel as part of an ongoing effort to introduce its industry partners and garner additional feedback. Sony was also mentioned at the IDF in this context, Apple was not mentioned at all.

In any event, Intel has suggested that systems using Light Peak are already being designed, and there are rumors that Apple intends to introduce Light Peak-equipped systems in Q4 of 2010.
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Not worried about USB 3.0. Between 1000BASE-T Gigabit-Ethernet, WiFi 802.11n, FireWire 800, and USB 2.0, I guess I have enough interfaces to connect any addons in the near future.
By the time USB 3.0 & Light Peak become mainstream, it will be time for a new computer.
 
Eric S. said:
Why? Do you have some USB 3.0 device(s)?

And what iMac refresh would that be?
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The next iMac update would be about mid-2010 (at the earliest), and that's only likely to be a speed bump update, so you're really looking at late 2010 / early 2011 (again, at the earliest) before USB 3.0 can even make an appearance ... and then you have to wait for the devices to be released.
 
Light Peak in Apple product 2010

snorkeller1 said:
After stumbling on sites like http://www.reghardware.co.uk/ it appears that Light Peak will come after USB3 (as USB4 possibly) and is much faster.

If USB3-supporting mobos from ASUS, USB3 flash-drives from Super Talent, USB3 ExpressCard from Fresco Logic are mouth-watering already, it's hard to think Apple isn't chomping at the bit. It's difficult to think that Apple is going to wait while Intel bides its time on USB3, since interface speeds are the weak spot in mass computing.

Apple will, in time, include SATA-3 and BlueTooth-3, of course :apple:
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Rumor has it that Light Peak ports will be released in Desktop Mac's in August 2010 that rumored apple Tablet will have a light peak port
 
New USB devices etc.

More googling using a dying G4:

http://news.techworld.com/storage/3202573/freecom-outs-first-ever-usb-30-hard-drive/

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/29710/ocz-plans-usb-3-ssd

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/buffalo-now-shipping-superspeed-usb-3-0-external-hard-drive/

Imagine what info would turn up if i were using a Quad-Core i7 or even a Quad-Core Nehalem desktop :rolleyes:

Oh, yes, they're just faked/rumor links put up by ill-meaning folk living on the other side of the world, meant to make us salivate in vain :rolleyes:
 
yeah, i am pulling off the trigger too, because of this and the blu ray burner debacle. I am already burning 50 GB RE disc on my PC, why would a cutting edge computer company like apple lag behind the PC? why why why, if imac have blu-ray burner + usb 3, i will buy it right away after the bugs straighten out. I am very patience i can wait for years and years.


solman said:
Help!

I was going to pull the trigger on a 27 inch iMac but I know that USB 3.0 is here. So if the next iMac refresh has it, don't we lose out? That's a serious upgrade.

Anyone know how close we are to appearing in iMacs?
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No love from AMD for USB 3.0 on SB850. There's a slim chance for SB810 but signs point to no luck until 2011 from them as well.
 
USB 3 is rubbish

Oh and FW 3200 is done... whether or not they release it or not is the question.

All we need now is eSata on an iMac .... gg Raid 6
 
Maybe if I used my USB ports to the extent where it made a difference in my life, but USB ports on my iMac mostly serve small external items that don't need performance superior to FW800.

When USB 3.0 arrives, there will be hype building about the next big development.

You could spend the rest of your life waiting to get the latest computer that will be current for all of 6 months anyway.

With 4 USB 2.0 ports I am more than covered, especially with the keyboard and mouse being bluetooth and time machine operating on a time capsule.
 
I'm an Editor/Colorist/Producer - I WAS worried, I'll tell you why I'm not anymore.

Like I said, I WAS worried. 'Till I sat down and REALLY thought about it. The odds of working on a project from home that involves Uncompressed HD footage are slim to none. Almost EVERYTHING these days is acquired (and cut) in a compressed medium, and even professional projects that are computer-generated generally use ProRes until the absolute final stages of production. NOBODY except maybe Jim Cameron uses Uncompressed to cut anymore, and that being the case, FireWire 800 is actually just fine for almost anything I could possibly need - even RED footage, which (unless you're insane) will be offlined first, cut as pro-res, and then once you have an EDL, ONLINED. You could make the argument that one cannot playback ONLINE RED footage off FW800, but it depends on what you convert the REDcode to - ProRes HQ is actually good enough for mastering. Maybe not Color Correction, but even then, if you needed an uncompressed intermediate to bring into Color, FW800 is fast enough for CC - especially if you render OUT of color as ProRes HQ, which will be easily watchable in FCP.

The extremely high through-put tasks I may be required to do as part of my profession (like mastering to tape of one kind or another) will pretty much ALWAYS need to be done at another facility, EVEN IF I HAVE THE CAPABILITIES AT HOME, because that's just how things are done in this business. Better for me then to save my coin and buy a machine that will do everything I need it to, and in an elegant, space-saving design.

So no, I'm not worried. Once Light-Peak comes out, I'll probably be wanting another machine by then anyways; I like to buy new machines every 2-3 years.
 
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