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Light Peak Coming in Early 2011 With Apple at Forefront?
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I'll settle for a Light Peak to USB 3.0 Hub. One connector on my mac attaching to all my USB 3.0 devices. Hope this is how USB 3.0 is coming to the Mac.
Also... could you have a Light Peak SAN? Fibre lengths seem to be long enough (not as long as fibre channel though).
vapor ware? what are you talking about? its already released in some laptops, my new G53JW supports WiDi (all you need is a select couple of special intel wireless cards to support it)
http://www.intel.com/consumer/products/technology/wirelessdisplay.htm
even bestbuy, the crappiest place for computers has tons of models already supporting it
Yes I did find it, a bit pricy but still very cool for its first implementation. I am all for wireless but I still in my small monkey brain don't see it all been wireless because of security reasons, still who knows what the next 5 to 10 years will bring.
Best Buy is pushing their Blue Label notebooks with expanded support and WiDi standard on many models. It's limited to 720p and the latency in the demos I've seen is acceptable for video playback. It'll be better the next time around on Sandy Bridge.
I must admit the technology did come out of nowhere from Intel.
As far as I can tell, this isn't going to be like mDP. That said, mDP is rather nice, provided they live up to the standard of HD audio and daisy chaining that was laid out for it.
Regardless, this won't be another mDP because they're marketing it for everything; from displays to any peripherals to maybe even your keyboard (that would be amusing). As per the WiDi; yes, someday. However it should be noted that cables will always be around for those more intense circumstances (ie business, education, etc)-- the theoretical of LP is higher than WiDi, and is likely to reach that point much faster. Also the position of LP is going to be far easier than WiDi; its already in laptops yet who uses it?
EDIT: Wasn't there also talk of them bundling power into LP cables, just like USB?
Regardless, this won't be another mDP because they're marketing it for everything; from displays to any peripherals to maybe even your keyboard (that would be amusing). As per the WiDi; yes, someday. However it should be noted that cables will always be around for those more intense circumstances (ie business, education, etc)-- the theoretical of LP is higher than WiDi, and is likely to reach that point much faster. Also the position of LP is going to be far easier than WiDi; its already in laptops yet who uses it?
EDIT: Wasn't there also talk of them bundling power into LP cables, just like USB?
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Or you could just run M/PM under parallels on your Mac. Any Mac would be faster than what those things did.
LightPeak will be like any other I/O connection and will co-exist right alongside FW eSTATA and USB 3,0. Now, I will wait a couple months before buying the G-SAFE that I wanted, just to see if the price drops again. This is a great time to be into computers as things are really taking off. It won’t be too long before all things wired; go wireless at light-peak performance. This may be around the same time when the MacRumors server, loads a page in less than 2-minutes!
Regards,
Dan
Regards,
Dan
If LightPeak is cheaper to include in computers than 10gb ethernet is, then, networks would most likely adopt this. Also, you could possibly include multiple hard drives in a single enclosure using one cable. You could either use both hard drives separately, or maybe the drive could come with a hardware RAID controller. Lots of possibilities, none of which are possible without something that fast.
Sandy Bridge and Light Peak. 2011 should be an interesting year for the Mac!
Maybe now all we'll read will be about the Mac and not about the iPhone/iPad.
Don't forget about Lion!
Correction: 5 Gbps and 25 Gbps - huge difference.
(5 GB is 5,000,000,000 bytes per second, 5 Gb is 625,000,000 bytes per second)
From what I read of lightpeak previously, it include copper wires alongside the fiber in order to provide power. So I think they've got it covered. They're not that stupid...
What makes you think that? I mean of course USB is awesome, widely adopted, and cheap to use for manufacturers. But there eventually has to be something that replaces it. I'm not saying that LightPeak is necessarily it, but no one can say for sure. I mean it's insanely faster than USB, will probably use a small connector, and can power devices. And if it's as cheap to use as USB for manufacturers, then I don't see how there isn't some kind of possibility it could replace USB.
It's clear that you don't get Light Peak. Light Peak is designed to unify all these dissimilar busses. You could run USB 3 OVER Light Peak. You'll be able to do the same with SATA, FireWire and DisplayPort. Light Peak is literally the "one bus to rule them all." You'll be able to use existing tech, including USB 3.0, with Light Peak.
You need power in the cable or it's useless for a lot of devices, e.g. flash drives.
Merging multiple ports into one is a vary valid goal by itself. It may not be an issue for us techies, but for non-techies, having to pay attention to "my ethernet goes here", "my monitor goes there", "my printer goes here" is a pain in the backside. By being able to unify everything into one single plug, it doesn't matter anymore. They're all the same, just plug it anywhere.
I'm sure we'll think of something. But the biggest one at the moment is video. Super hi-res on a big monitor eats up a LOT of bandwidth, which is why all such video cables currently have upwards of a dozen wires (they can sum up the bandwidth over multiple wires to get what they need). One HDMI cable has 10.2Gb/s bandwidth, for example.
How about a 6TB SSD that backs everything up in 5-minutes or less. Moreover, systems will be designed and optimized for improved performance in ways we can't yet imagine. Example: High compression scanners, video storage content, and a slew of others' may benefit from smoother and more efficient performance.
I'm an early adopter and when this comes out I'm gonna ADOPT like their's no tomorrow, I've always had a soft side for optical transmission