Nice, but the big news to me in that article is that Apple seems to once again go their own way with the LightPeak one-connector-to-rule-them-all alternative.
It's actually really strange they decided to do that and I think they may be overplaying their hand a bit here.
The original iMac is one of the reasons that USB became as popular as it did, abandoning it for a non-backwards compatible link seems like a risky maneuver. Manufacturers of devices will have to decide which to support, and apple may well lose out, they've grown quite a bit in the last couple of years but not enough to become the top priority for a hardware manufacturer just yet, so apple support of devices would be done after the usb 3.0 support is done.
I hope they'll stick a few regular USB ports on there, there is enough trouble already with Mac display connectors to last you a lifetime.
Anybody here know if Apple + Intel own a patent on the LightPeak connectors? Like, maybe, they want everybody to use LightPeak, but more importantly, pay Apple and Intel for LightPeak licensing?
If I'm wrong, and they're really promoting a standard for optical transfer from PC to peripheral that's awesome.
Yes, we're about to enter another dimension. A time when external drives are as fast as internal ones.
Just checking - is this hyperbole? I've had external Firewire drives that offered noticably more bandwidth than my internal drives at the time, & before that, scsi.
