Shrygue
November 13th, 2008, 17:29
via Gizmodo (http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/11/13/usb30_details_confirmed_about.html)
With all this digital media floating about and high definition content getting more popular all the time, we were expecting something from the USB camp and more news of the next generation was revealed at a recent Windows Hardware Engineering Conference.
USB Implementers Forum President Jeff Ravencraft let loose with some information about USB3.0, which is expected to appear late 2009/early 2010.
It'll apparently be able to transfer at blisteringly fast speeds of 5Gbps per second (roughly 600MB per second), or for media junkies that's about an average sized movie or eight average sized music albums EVERY SECOND.
In comparison USB2.0 takes ten times as long, and we pity the fool who's trying to shift this sort of data using USB1.1 on a knackered old laptop.
Negotiations are apparently afoot to work out which operating systems will get the technology, though Microsoft is obviously at the forefront. The word so far is that at least Windows Vista should get support, if not XP as well.
To be honest if Microsoft is still trying to push people towards Vista in a year's time we can't see it bending over backwards to help out poor old XP users.
With all this digital media floating about and high definition content getting more popular all the time, we were expecting something from the USB camp and more news of the next generation was revealed at a recent Windows Hardware Engineering Conference.
USB Implementers Forum President Jeff Ravencraft let loose with some information about USB3.0, which is expected to appear late 2009/early 2010.
It'll apparently be able to transfer at blisteringly fast speeds of 5Gbps per second (roughly 600MB per second), or for media junkies that's about an average sized movie or eight average sized music albums EVERY SECOND.
In comparison USB2.0 takes ten times as long, and we pity the fool who's trying to shift this sort of data using USB1.1 on a knackered old laptop.
Negotiations are apparently afoot to work out which operating systems will get the technology, though Microsoft is obviously at the forefront. The word so far is that at least Windows Vista should get support, if not XP as well.
To be honest if Microsoft is still trying to push people towards Vista in a year's time we can't see it bending over backwards to help out poor old XP users.