USB 2 Devices Not Necessarily High-Speed

mgcsinc writes "Yahoo is running a story on how some manufacturers of "USB 2.0" devices are making hardware compatible with the USB 2.0 standard, but not necessarily its high-speed component." Sounds like the complaint raised earlier this year.

Comments

Whaaa?

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean my "USB 2.0" mouse is not high-speed?

So?

[bconway]

This isn't much of a revelation, it just means that the USB connection isn't the bottleneck. ATA133 drives won't run at 133 MB/s, either, I wonder if someone's going to start complaining about that now. ;-)

High speed clickage

[damacer]

Dude you have no idea how fast some of us point/scroll/click.

Roommate1: Whoa, what's wrong with Tod? It looks like he's having a seizure or something?
Roommate2: Naw, he's fine, he's just surfing the net after 2 quad-lattes & a couple of red bulls.

Re:But do they NEED it?

[Wumpus]

Then you must be real angry, real often.

Re:MOD PARENT DOWN

[Anonymous Coward]

Mod parent sideways.

Karma is precious.

I'm confused

[platypus]

Weren't USB 2.0 "highspeed" devices actually the slow ones? So, if you have a slow device, it is highspeed, isn't it?
Or was it Big Speed?

Wait.

USB2.0 Huge Speed. No, that wasn't it

I'm seriously confused.

Re:But do they NEED it?

[Pig Hogger]

Does a USB mouse need to be able to transmit data in excess of 400mbit/sec?

Speedy Gonzales does.

Hi-speed Pentium

[Latent Heat]

For a high-speed Pentium you will want a Pentium III. The Pentium 4 is only rated full speed.

But I need a USB 2.0 Keyboard.....

[stfvon007]

When I type on my old USB 1.1 keyboard, it keeps dropping keystrokes whenever I type more than 1.3 million characters a second. Now with my new USB 2.0 keyboard I can safely type at 50 million characters per second without it dropping keystrokes!