Intel's USB 3.0 and Wireless USB 1.1 target speeds announced: so long Firewire?

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citizen @ Sep 19th 2007 8:21AM

theres one thing i wish the next usb standard would have, and thats the capability to supply more power, then maybe all those external 3.5" hardisks wouldnt need powerbicks!

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matthew @ Sep 19th 2007 8:42AM

here! here!

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Joshua Miller @ Sep 19th 2007 9:32PM

Actually, that's "Hear, hear!" as in "Hear what he is saying!"

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Temple @ Sep 19th 2007 9:45AM

Amen, I've personally never had any issue with speed as much as power. For instance, even external DVD-burners for my laptop need additional power. I have a slim Plextor DVD-burner which needs to connect to a second USB slot just to get enough juice to run.

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dv @ Sep 19th 2007 10:55AM

no! people should stop thinking of USB as a power supply.

i'm tired of seeing computer-less USB devices like USB shavers, USB fans, USB drink coolers, and USB projectile launchers. where the heck are you going to be such that you have a USB port but no power plug, and desperately need to shave?

increasing the power standards is only going to make it worse. we're going to start to have USB saws, USB drill presses, USB who-knows-what that probably should not be sending inductive loads through your computer. people will make this stuff, i tell you. but people need to start realizing that a USB hub is not a magic source of a bunch of power sockets. there is also this wonderful thing called a power strip that you can plug into any power socket, ubiquitous everywhere you go, and you'll get plenty of places to plug in your shavers and rice cookers and what have you.

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OddManOut @ Sep 19th 2007 12:21PM

Agreed!

It's nice to see the standard evolving. USB has been one of the best things to happen to PCs in the last 15 years (no offense to IR/Parallel/Serial, which had their days in the sun). An extra 5-port usb i/o card is standard equipment on all the machines I build. It would be nice if you could simply connect one of those increasingly unused molex power connectors to your i/o card and supply the full 12 volts out to your devices.

Hey, we've got power over ethernet now...why not!

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