time for next rumor...let me get out the hat....and its......iPad will now have a port that lets you connect to your brain. Introducing the neural interface called the iThink
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Could the iPad 2 Be Getting Light Peak?
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Front page of MR owned by LP much? This won't happen, and if it does that means the MBPs this week will have it. So if it did I'd be happy, but realistically come on...
Yeah. The iPad 2 is getting Light Peak because a guy who runs a rumor site thinks it'd be really cool.
I also heard it's going to have rudimentary telepathic capability - but they might hold that off until iPad 3.
I also heard it's going to have rudimentary telepathic capability - but they might hold that off until iPad 3.
When the rumors start saying the iPad will have a G5 processor, then itll be ridiculous.
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There working on it transferring at speeds of 1tb/s? What mother flipping computer do they think will support that? When they make this, then a highspeed wireless standard will be in demand. With wireless electricity.
There working on it transferring at speeds of 1tb/s? What mother flipping computer do they think will support that? When they make this, then a highspeed wireless standard will be in demand. With wireless electricity.
Much higher throughput (for synching, driving external monitors/high def televisions, etc.)
Putting aside the feasibility of such a thing, it wouldn't give the iPad any benefits. Despite the fact that multi-channel SSDs like those in the MBA are very fast, the low-power and cheap flash memory controllers in devices like the iPhone/iPad are slow and I wouldn't be surprised if USB 2.0 can already saturate the ability of the iPad to write to it's internal storage. So if it wouldn't speed up synching, what would be the point? Not to mention USB3 would be far more feasible and pragmatic considering most new PCs are shipping with USB3.
As to external monitors, modern ARM SoCs can already output 1080P via mini-HDMI.
I have to think back to the iPod (version 2?) where the initial cases revealed a camera and then when it came out the camera was gone.. could happen here as well.. it could be a proposed feature that might just vanish upon release. I'm also not sure why I would want a port.. I want wireless sync not an added port! Maybe it's a finger port... a built in finger warmer.. that would be cool 
Hey,
I might've missed something. But is there anything that tells us that it has to be a port (others suggesting it could be a microphone tells me that there is nothing that limits what the opening in the case could be for)? Can it be an IrDA? It would need to be made of transparent material, thus the opening. I'm sure an IrDA is not something as spectacular as LightPeak, but it's something.
I might've missed something. But is there anything that tells us that it has to be a port (others suggesting it could be a microphone tells me that there is nothing that limits what the opening in the case could be for)? Can it be an IrDA? It would need to be made of transparent material, thus the opening. I'm sure an IrDA is not something as spectacular as LightPeak, but it's something.
This Light Peak vs. USB 3 thing is going to be like Blu-ray vs. HD DVD. And I'm fairly certain LP is going to be on the losing end. USB is already widely established, and I have yet to see some huge benefit that LP has over USB3 that would knock it off the market. The only way it has a chance is if Apple starts pumping it out in huge quantities, but even then it will likely be seen as the expensive and only slightly faster alternative to USB. That puts it at roughly the market share of firewire.
I agree with you. Magsafe+data connectors on idevices would only be topped by wireless charging & syncing.
I think it is important to note the mystery port is in addition to the standard dock connector. Given the iPad's power demands, it could also be a magsafe charging connection that later will support data when the Macs are ready.
Haters?
Will arn apologise to the "haters" (i.e. someone with a different opinion??) if there is no light peak in iPad2?? I think not!
How about one of the hottest and most popular computers on the planet, appealing to many different types of users, including consumers and professionals, becoming a recipient for a new technology? Seems like a great idea to me in order to spread this young protocol.
You are assuming that Apple's ASIC team didn't design their own flash memory controller.
I would hope that a new and fast connector like Light Peak would show up on the Mac Pro before the MacBook Pro.
I wish any of that had even the tiniest bit of relevance to the practicality, feasibility, and likelihood of implementation with the next product revision.
Alas, it doesn't.
The ipad in its current incarnation has ZERO use for a 10gbps interconnect. The built-in storage would be lucky to read or write data at 1/5 that speed. Want to make it faster? Not in a $500 device in 2011, sorry.