Figuring that the new Mac Pro will arrive sometime in the January 2009 timeframe (hopefully)...is there enough time for them to incorporate the new USB 3.0 spec? I'd love to have that kind of transfer rate available to me when USB 3.0 devices start to ship.
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New Mac Pro and USB 3.0?
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Blu-ray should have been available for the mac a long time ago. Whats taking apple so long to get this going??? I need to backup all my porn on one disc.
It has been available for the Mac for a long time - especially as it relates to using it for data storage.
Not just from Apple.
Come on... be honest with us, you know it would take about 10 disc for that
10 blurays or DVD-DLs?
Everything i have read, which isn't a lot has said 2010 with possible holiday 2009 push for 3.0(not for mac pro, but for anything). Let's just hope Firewire 3200 gets put in the next update.
At this point USB 3.0 is a specification for the connector (beta ver 0.97 I believe). It has quite a ways to go before any actual chip set will be manufactured for distribution.
'quite a ways' ? Improve your grammar!
USB 3.0 is a distant technology. You can see from the roadmap (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/14/intel_posts_usb_3_hci_spec/) that initial deployment will not take place until 2Q 2009. There is a chance that Apple will delay the Mac Pros until the new Intel chipset is ready, but I doubt that very much.
Best thing to do would be to buy the Nehalem Mac Pro, buy a USB 3.0 PCI card when it's available with devices that actually use it, then save for a Larrabee GPU for Q4 2009/2010.
What I do want to see, though, is Wireless USB. That would, and I can't believe I'm using the word, own. Apple could really get the adoption of the technology rolling by including WUSB across its products. I mean, who doesn't want to walk in the room and have their camera sync with iPhoto before they even get to the desk? Or have their iPod/iPhone sync in a similar manner, even when they're not in front of the computer? Or connect to external hard drives hidden away under your desk, without cables trailing up the back? It's such an Apple thing to do, and the OSX ease-of-use card would make it fantastic. Maybe Apple could even come up with some USB-WUSB adapters for existing devices, or upgrade the Airport Express to share devices with WUSB?
Wow, I got carried away.
USB 3.0 is a distant technology. You can see from the roadmap (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/14/intel_posts_usb_3_hci_spec/) that initial deployment will not take place until 2Q 2009. There is a chance that Apple will delay the Mac Pros until the new Intel chipset is ready, but I doubt that very much.
Best thing to do would be to buy the Nehalem Mac Pro, buy a USB 3.0 PCI card when it's available with devices that actually use it, then save for a Larrabee GPU for Q4 2009/2010.
What I do want to see, though, is Wireless USB. That would, and I can't believe I'm using the word, own. Apple could really get the adoption of the technology rolling by including WUSB across its products. I mean, who doesn't want to walk in the room and have their camera sync with iPhoto before they even get to the desk? Or have their iPod/iPhone sync in a similar manner, even when they're not in front of the computer? Or connect to external hard drives hidden away under your desk, without cables trailing up the back? It's such an Apple thing to do, and the OSX ease-of-use card would make it fantastic. Maybe Apple could even come up with some USB-WUSB adapters for existing devices, or upgrade the Airport Express to share devices with WUSB?
Wow, I got carried away.
Old threads are old.
Interesting that members yell when other members don't search for existing threads....and now they yell at other members for using existing threads (even if they are 2 years old)...
You just can't win.
GL
Well... it's encouraged to search for existing threads that have answers to your questions, rather than start a new thread to ask something that was already answered.
This is bumping an old thread, to contribute with news that isn't news at all (an article from 8 months ago?).
So.. nothing interesting about it
Intel must be pushing Light Peak. Why support a new backwards compatible technology when you can support a new technology that will require all new components and peripherals?
They are. That's why USB 3.0 support won't be added to their chipset offerings until 2012, as to help stall it, and allow LP to gain traction (they do have control over an awful lot of systems made...Intel must be pushing Light Peak. Why support a new backwards compatible technology when you can support a new technology that will require all new components and peripherals?
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