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    Light Peak May Arrive in Early 2010, Maybe In New Apple Products?

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    10/08/09

    In reply to Light Peak May Arrive in Early 2010, Maybe In New Apple Products?
    ..so this means my late 2010 iPhone purchase will be designed so that all of my old Apple chargers won't work with it? Again?
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Light Peak May Arrive in Early 2010, Maybe In New Apple Products?
    I'm more excited to see this on a MacBook Pro than the tablet.

    So is the fiberoptic cable paired with a regular wire to allow for charging? As far as I know, light can't charge a device, unless Apple has decided the laws of physics has gotten in their way for long enough, and they are finally going to do something about it.
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Light Peak May Arrive in Early 2010, Maybe In New Apple Products?
    Let me see if I understand:

    "Apple went to Intel and adopted USB for its original iMac...it made USB extremely popular."

    So, if I am reading this article properly, it sounds like USB would not have been a success without Apple. All those PC's running out there would never have had the connectivity of USB if it were not for Apple??? Hmmm, I call bullshit on this one.

    Now, I do like the concept of this, assuming that the cables can be rugged enough. I use fiber cables for various applications and they do ok but I do have concerns and have had some connections break do to improper handling. Hopefully they can make something that is as simple as USB with the speed of a direct connection to the controller of your choice...
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    Jesus Diaz promoted this comment andrelix was starred andrelix was unstarred
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    10/08/09

    @andrelix: Apple helped USB become mainstream for sure. Prior to the iMac, peripheral makers were content on continuing to crank out PS/2 mice and keyboards, parallel port printers, serial port modems and so on. Microsoft was also slow to adopt it, with Windows 98 being the first consumer OS to kinda have support for it.

    I remember seeing USB ports show up on new Gateway machines in 1997. But nothing used them, including Gateways own included keyboard and mouse.

    The popularity of the first iMac definitely helped push the adoption of USB. Manufacturers finally started making USB devices, and eventually the PC world started buying them too.
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    10/08/09

    @andrelix: Your fanboyish post shows complete ignorance of the market during those days. While there were PCs with USB ports before Apple's iMac, there were no USB peripherals in the market. Companies kept building RS232, PS/2, and parallel ports shit for PCs, and showed no interest for USB. The iMac kickstarted the USB market because it had NO other port. It made it huge, with hundreds of peripherals coming in bondi blue and USB ports only. Then PC users started to buy those peripherals too.

    Not to talk about the fact that Intel has publicly credited Apple with USB's success, thanks to the original iMac.
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    Image of Cliff_Dangers Cliff_Dangers
    10/08/09

    @drakino: imac.. circa 1998... apple market share 3.1%. I can hardly see how anyone with 3.1% market share made that big of a difference.
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    Jim Topoleski promoted this comment Cliff_Dangers was starred Cliff_Dangers was unstarred
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    10/08/09

    @Cliff_Dangers: They did. You fail to remember just how BIG the iMac was.

    Much of Apples continued hype comes from what was basically a second coming of Apple. The iMac was 1984 all over again for the company, and peoples perception of the company.

    There was bondi colored EVERYTHING, even non-computer products like vacuums. Anything hip in 98-99 had to have i in lowercase in front of it.

    And yes making a computer that had ONLY USB and NO floppy really did change the computer market and made perheptual manufacturers get away from using serial/ADB/parallel/and PS/2 ports.

    It wasnt instantaneous, but the iMac did make it happen.
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    Image of Piker247 Piker247
    10/08/09

    @Jim Topoleski: Fanboy "BIG" does not equal Market Share "BIG". Apple does desreves credit for initiating the USB standard as viable, but it is a big stretch to say they made it happen. MS adopting the technology made it happen.
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    Jim Topoleski promoted this comment Edited by Piker247 at 10/08/09 12:24 PM Piker247 was starred Piker247 was unstarred
    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    10/08/09

    @Piker247: Except Microsoft didnt actually adopt USB till long after people where using it.

    You had to patch Win 98 to use USB. Even OS 9 allowed you to use USB without drivers for all but particular devices.
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    10/08/09

    @Jim Topoleski: It's spliting hairs, but the point I am making is that unless your goal was to be "small company", the ultimate intent of manufacturers was to have their products embraced by M$ users.
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    10/08/09

    @Jesus Diaz: Whoa there big boy, who is the fanboi? FWIW, I now have more macs in my house than PC's and my main box is a Mac Pro that runs both Windows 7 and OS/X. My point is nicely summed up below by Cliff_Dangers that 3.1% market share does not redefine an industry. The reality is that many of these peripherals started to gain market share AFTER windows acceptance of USB and more specifically after USB 2.0 which really became the usable standard.
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Light Peak May Arrive in Early 2010, Maybe In New Apple Products?
    I suppose these could also work as a step in between CAT6 and Fiber Optic Network cables right? Well it should seeing as it has Fiber in it (for speed anyway)... i wonder how expensive it would be to run these through walls of a house...
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Light Peak May Arrive in Early 2010, Maybe In New Apple Products?
    Make it so!

    I can see it on the Apple tablet and macs of next year!
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Light Peak May Arrive in Early 2010, Maybe In New Apple Products?
    My interested is lightly peaked...
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    OCEntertainment promoted this comment SEDAGIVE?! was starred SEDAGIVE?! was unstarred
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    10/08/09

    @SEDAGIVE?!: I find it hard to connect with your light-hearted statement.
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    10/08/09

    @OCEntertainment: It might just be an optical illusion.
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Light Peak May Arrive in Early 2010, Maybe In New Apple Products?
    "One single port to rule them all."

    If we're still talking about this years after USB came into existence, it will never ever happen.

    Universal Serial Bus, people. It's right in the name. USB was already supposed to be the "one port to rule them all". But as with anything in the tech industry, good luck getting everyone to agree.

    Especially rallying behind Apple.
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    Image of thepeopleselbow thepeopleselbow
    10/08/09

    @OCEntertainment: Fairly certain that's exactly what was said about usb before it became the standard.

    This technology is a speed boost, why won't that sell?
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    OCEntertainment promoted this comment thepeopleselbow was starred thepeopleselbow was unstarred
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    10/08/09

    @thepeopleselbow: People. Doesn't matter how good a technology is, you will never, and I mean never get every single device manufacturer and peripheral maker to sign off on a single standard that has even the tiniest bit of money attached to it.

    Sony alone will likely screw this up by still pushing HDMI. You know, because they want DRM and content control built-in to the wires they used to hook up monitors and TVs. Not a chance in hell they'll just up and go with LightPeak for all their video needs and hand Apple the reigns.

    No. Friggin. Way.
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    09/25/09

    In reply to Man, That's a Huge Hackintosh
    Giz, a tiny request:

    When you record something like this, please get a feed of the audio, and don't take it from the hall. Difference will amaze you.

    There are loads of wireless doo-hickeys that will do the job beautifully.
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    09/25/09

    @xThadd: You mean like a TS of a movie kinda? If you want to complain about the sound quality (which was far from horriable) be sure to know where the Vid came from. This is a clip borrowed from Engadget. Giz knows better ;)
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    09/24/09

    In reply to Man, That's a Huge Hackintosh

    My Twinkie is huger.
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    09/24/09

    In reply to Man, That's a Huge Hackintosh
    [s165.photobucket.com]
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    Image of PyrateKitteh PyrateKitteh
    09/24/09

    In reply to Intel Atom CE4100 Is a Beast of a Media Chip
    I'd love to see this type of hardware hottnes in a nettop. Even better would be a dockable netbook. Just imaging, yanking out the core of your HD DVR to take with you with on vacation.
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    09/24/09

    @PyrateKitteh: That would be seriously awesome.
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    09/24/09

    In reply to Viliv's S10 "Blade" Netbook Tablet Boasts 10 Hours of Battery Life and Windows 7
    A tablet without multi-touch?

    No thanks. Better luck next model.
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    09/24/09

    In reply to Viliv's S10 "Blade" Netbook Tablet Boasts 10 Hours of Battery Life and Windows 7
    Since we have to go though this EVERY time... there are multitouch resisitve screens.

    [www.stantum.com]
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Viliv's S10 "Blade" Netbook Tablet Boasts 10 Hours of Battery Life and Windows 7
    I don't get it... you guys already made a review on S7, and it's pretty bad.
    What justifies the positive announcement?
    [gizmodo.com]

    I decided to go for a more mainstream brand (currently I'm considering HP) for a tablet... specially after reading the S7 review.
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Intel's Moblin OS Shows Up on Dell Mini 10v
    Moblin wont get any play on my HP Mini until they fix the wireless issues. Its Jolicloud all the way.

    Moblin is nice eye candy and all, but its lacking where it counts the most
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