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Apple "pushed Intel" to replace USB with Light Peak 
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/351967/appl ... light-peak

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I think that this is good. You could have decent home wired networks. I guess that Apple would benefit as well, if they could produce a MacBook Air with a single Light Peak port which would be as functional as any MacBook Pro with such a connection.

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ONE port? Are you serious?

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ONE port? Are you serious?

You only need one. From Wiki:

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Light Peak has the following characteristics:

* 10 Gb/s over optical cable (up to 100 metre in length)
* Connect to multiple devices at the same time
* Multiple protocols
* Bi-Directional transfer
* Quality of service implementation
* Hot pluggable
* Intel is working on bundling the optical fiber with copper wire so Light Peak can be used to power devices.


No idea how the plugs work, but I guess maybe you'd use a hub. That's quite a lot of bandwidth, and they're already talking about upping it to 100Gb/s.

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JJW009 wrote:
Linux_User wrote:
ONE port? Are you serious?

You only need one. From Wiki:

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Light Peak has the following characteristics:

* 10 Gb/s over optical cable (up to 100 metre in length)
* Connect to multiple devices at the same time
* Multiple protocols
* Bi-Directional transfer
* Quality of service implementation
* Hot pluggable
* Intel is working on bundling the optical fiber with copper wire so Light Peak can be used to power devices.


No idea how the plugs work, but I guess maybe you'd use a hub. That's quite a lot of bandwidth, and they're already talking about upping it to 100Gb/s.


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Mind you, one port and if that goes US, what then? I'm hoping on a 2 port minimum for most machines.

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Mind you, one port and if that goes US, what then? I'm hoping on a 2 port minimum for most machines.

I would prefer two as well, but for something like the MacBook Air which only has one port anyway it would be very useful. Especially since it can be a good for large file transfers.

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USB will be here for years to come.

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