If when reading the specs of the recently-updated Apple Powerbooks, you sort of skimmed over the Bluetooth 2.0 part and figured you’d learn about it later, well, me too. Obviously, it had to be faster, because 2.0 is bigger than 1.2 (the current, most-common Bluetooth standard), but the Powerbooks were one of the first devices to explicitly support it. Thank goodness, then, that the lord of all wireless data, Glenn Fleishman, wrote this bit for MacCentral explaining what exactly the new Bluetooth standard is all about. The short-end is that it’s three times faster (up to 3Mbps) and should operate with an increased efficiency. There’s only one problem: the first peripherals supporting the new standard likely won’t be out until late summer or fall.
https://gizmodo.com/apple-powerbooks-get-minor-update-still-g4-31607
Also, since the Bluetooth SIG doesn’t seem to have a logo for the new standard yet, here’s a little something I cooked up using skills I learned while training with the CyberDsignClan. I think it’s important to put this technology out there for the kids and really get them “jazzed” about, so I thought we’d “rock the dropsy shadowz” as they say. Plus, kids dig on rainbows. Let me know, SIG.
Inside Bluetooth 2.0 [MacCentral via Blueserker]
