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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:36 am 
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:37 am 
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Thunderbolt looks like it's going to be a 10Gigabit fibre optic connection which you can daisy chain. Oh, and that's 10Gigabits in each direction at the same time.
As for the USB on the MacBooks, I've never needed to use more than one at a time.

Didn't Intel confirm last month that the initial lightpeak stuff will be based on copper?


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:38 am 
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Thunderbolt looks like it's going to be a 10Gigabit fibre optic connection which you can daisy chain. Oh, and that's 10Gigabits in each direction at the same time.
As for the USB on the MacBooks, I've never needed to use more than one at a time.

Didn't Intel confirm last month that the initial lightpeak stuff will be based on copper?


If it is copper then how much better is it than USB3? :?

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:41 am 
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Beans wrote:
bear wrote:
massimo wrote:
Thunderbolt looks like it's going to be a 10Gigabit fibre optic connection which you can daisy chain. Oh, and that's 10Gigabits in each direction at the same time.
As for the USB on the MacBooks, I've never needed to use more than one at a time.

Didn't Intel confirm last month that the initial lightpeak stuff will be based on copper?


If it is copper then how much better is it than USB3? :?


Quite a bit faster in theory. Although I can shift 25GB of mixed data in 7 mins with USB 3, it should take an awful lot less using Light Peak, even if though the 'Light' has been replaced with copper until Intel can make the 'Light' viable.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:42 am 
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Fck me, ANOTHER plug and play standard :fp:

Surely firewire 800 is as fast as anyone would need?

In other news, I used iPhoto to make a printed book of my holiday snaps for one of her birthday presents. Judging by the pics of them ive seen on the net, the finished article is of a pretty good quality.
You can auto place all your photos and just buy it there and then, but my designers OCD kicked in and i hand placed and cropped every pic manually...took em two days :fp:

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:42 am 
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Are there any rumblings of new iMacs flying about? :shifty:

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:45 am 
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Are there any rumblings of new iMacs flying about? :shifty:


Blatantly.

*glares at 3 month old imac* :lol:

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:53 am 
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Surely firewire 800 is as fast as anyone would need?


Course not. Isn't the firewire 800 standard from about 2003? Home users want to shift masses of digital content (sometimes 100's of gig) from A to B quickly. USB 3.0 & Light Peak in particular makes this possible.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:09 pm 
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Home users want to shift masses of digital content (sometimes 100's of gig) from A to B quickly. USB 3.0 & Light Peak in particular makes this possible.


I'm curious as to how many home users do this on any kind of regular basis.


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:11 pm 
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Home users want to shift masses of digital content (sometimes 100's of gig) from A to B quickly. USB 3.0 & Light Peak in particular makes this possible.


I'm curious as to how many home users do this on any kind of regular basis.


Probably quite a few due to people downloading music/movies/games. More and more people will as the optical disc goes the way of the dodo

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:13 pm 
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Hundreds of gig, maybe not, but 1080p HD video's are pretty large files. I'm always having to try and shift 25 gig or so because iMovie somehow makes a 16GB card of HD movies fill up my entire hard drive :shifty:

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:22 pm 
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Somebody Else's Problem wrote:
Steve wrote:
Home users want to shift masses of digital content (sometimes 100's of gig) from A to B quickly. USB 3.0 & Light Peak in particular makes this possible.


I'm curious as to how many home users do this on any kind of regular basis.


Ok, another angle, if you are copying 5 gigs worth of data, would you rather wait several minutes or 30 seconds or so?

Thought so.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:31 pm 
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Plus it'd work great with the time machine backup system.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:32 pm 
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:38 pm 
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Plus it'd work great with the time machine backup system.


Thats a good point. Time machine is essential for me (genuinely)

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:43 pm 
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Plus it'd work great with the time machine backup system.


Thats a good point. Time machine is essential for me (genuinely)


Me too. Not for work purposes :lol: , but I have about 80GB of music and I think I would cry like a baby if I ever lost it all.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:04 pm 
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Somebody Else's Problem wrote:
Steve wrote:
Home users want to shift masses of digital content (sometimes 100's of gig) from A to B quickly. USB 3.0 & Light Peak in particular makes this possible.


I'm curious as to how many home users do this on any kind of regular basis.


In the work place that happens all the time. It'd be great. I'm tired of slow as strawberry float transfers.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:22 pm 
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MBP look pretty good

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:41 pm 
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I think many home users are already slowly but surely starting to need to shunt media around a lot more often. I have a lot of movies, games and other things that it's already a lot quicker to keep multiple backups of, than have to re-rip.


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:46 pm 
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Yeah I can see the benefit of faster mass data transfer for the average home user, but on the occasional I need to move 100s of gigs of recording data (e.g back-up), even SATA 2.0 (6Gb/s theoretical peak) grates, and the file transfers take so long, if some file fails due to errors or something, it's a real pain in the ass having to recommence the transfer or find what file didn't copy fully etc. I'd rather be able to complete the transfer and verify sooner than risk an incomplete back-up.

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