Comments on: Does Intel’s Light Peak Have a Place in Apple’s Future?

By: Heyho

Heyho — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:37:18 +0000

Give it a year or two and you’ll see USB 3.0 in Apple’s computers.

It’s cute and all that Intel and Apple think they have a runaway hit with Blunderbolt, but let’s face it, USB is here to stay.

Exactly 0 computers (excluding Apple’s MBP) have Thunderbold ports.

It will be a long while until any major manufactures make TB standard in all of their computers (IF EVER.)

USB 3.0 has already been around for awhile, and is backwards compatible out-of-the-box.

So, in the end. Blunderbolt is just a fancier, upgraded FireWire.

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By: rickla

rickla — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:14:07 +0000

“Steve’s already said USB 3.0 is out and most people don’t realize there’s anything beyond Firewire 800.”

What concerns me more is that many people don’t even know about FireWire 800, and most manufacturers don’t seem to have much interest.

By: Freak Head

Freak Head — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:07:06 +0000

??????

This article didn’t make a lot of sense.

Not sure why easy and lightpeak wired cables don’t go together.

Wireless ain’t coming anytime soon . It’s too slow and we have to charge our devices anyway so they will always be tethered.

Lightpeak will make things easier because the average person won’t have to know a usb port from a firewire port from a monitor port from an ethernet port even. I think that’s part of the promise of LIghtpeak.

LIghtpeak will also have so much bandwidth that you can just have one port on a machine if you wanted to instead of 4 or 5 USB ports. ONe lIghtpeak port will have much more bandwidth than a 4 or 5 USB ports. You could even replace all your ports on your Mac with 1 LightPeak port. Don’t forget how much Apple loves them external adapters – cha-ching.

The other reason to have lightpeak is lightning fast transfer rates. Very handy for today’s portable devices which sync to our computers. And hopefully it will be more like FW in the handshaking that goes on.

Very handy for backing up data to ever faster storage devices like SSDs also.

So this notion we’re not going to see ports and lightpeak is only going to be inside Macs and we’re going to see wireless transfers is ……not the case. Maybe farther down the road.

IN the meantime expect to see lightpeak ports in Macs.

They’ll carry power over an accompanying power wire btw if power is needed.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:38:11 +0000

When Apple tries to force me into their cloud by leaving ports off their desktops, I will, albeit reluctantly, switch to somebodies computer. After my experiences with Mobile Me, I will not trust Apple or anyone else with my important data.

By: Milos

Milos — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:11:30 +0000

Intel is now part of iMac and other Apple computers, so I think Intel have great future! But, rumors tells that Intel buy Mcafee because hardware does not have future! Who will know…

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:37:33 +0000

I’m certainly not holding my breath for Light Peak. But we’ll see USB 3.0 eventually — once Intel starts including it in their chipsets, Apple will have no reason to exclude it from the bigger notebooks, iMac, and Pro. The great thing about USB 3.0 is it’s backwards compatible with USB1/2. So the ‘average’ consumer wouldn’t even need to know/care that USB 3 is on their machine.

By: Ken Hughes

Ken Hughes — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:27:28 +0000

I think the Mac world you’re predicting is still a ways off. Until wireless technology advances to the point of pushing massive amounts of data at high speeds, faster than wireless-N, we’ll still need wires. And lets face it, USB 2.0 sucks. It’s a necessary evil that needs a major upgrade. The short-term options are USB 3.0, Firewire S1600/S3200, or Light Peak. Steve’s already said USB 3.0 is out and most people don’t realize there’s anything beyond Firewire 800. Light Peak gives a huge speed/bandwidth boost now as well as future expandability. Either way it will be interesting to see how things unfold.

Thanks for the interesting article!

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By: Rees Maxwell

Rees Maxwell — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:59:15 +0000

If we’re looking out into the future, then can we include inductive charging as a possible method that would allow us to ditch the ports AND the chargers? Yes, I know present day commercial inductive chargers, like in my toothbrush, are slow to charge and take up a lot of room (compared with a diminutive digital camera) and heat up the device a bit…but we’re looking into the future right? Might inductive charging tech get to a place where it would work well for these devices?