USB 3.0 to be transitional technology?

Posted on Tuesday, April 19 2011 @ 20:55 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

DigiTimes heard from sources at PC players that Thunderbolt may become the finalized next-gen transmission technology, while USB 3.0 may just be a transitional product.

Thunderbolt has already been adopted by Apple's MacBook Pro notebooks, while Sony is also considering adopting the technology into its high-end notebooks.

The sources pointed out that the USB 3.0 technology currently seems like it will become a transitional product with Thunderbolt to become the finalized next-generation transmission technology.

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Re: USB 3.0 to be transitional technology?
by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 20 2011 @ 12:59 CEST

Um I don't see 4 Thunderbolt ports coming on a notebook. And if you don't think you are going to need more than one high speed port, you would be wrong.

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