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

But do they NEED it?

[pfraser]

Do the devices need that high-speed component? Does a USB mouse need to be able to transmit data in excess of 400mbit/sec? No?

Re:But do they NEED it?

[gooberguy]

For example, a mouse doesn't need that transfer rate. Nor a keyboard.

So then a mouse should be USB 1, not 2. If it doesn't go at USB2 speeds, it shouldn't be called USB 2. Manufacturers are labeling USB 1 things as USB 2 to increase sales while deliberately misleading people. That is clearly wrong, and should be stopped.

Is this disingenuous?

[BizidyDizidy]

There's no real false advertising here; just an assumption on the part of consumer.

Should it be necessary that they inform you of the lack of full speed utilization? What if it's faster than USB 1.0 but not FULL speed.

IMO, the only clearcut measure is whether the standard is met, and it seems to be.

cost of backwards compatibility

[Creepy Crawler]

Well, many devices do not need the 480Mb/s speed as said in the article however, the devices are backwards compatible.

So why is everyone whining? Just have the anufacturers put max speed transfer on the boxes as spec sheet. Just dont buy anything from those manufacturers who dont.

And as a sideline about the jab about printers not meing "full-speed", who cares? Paralell printers, in epp/ecp mode, could only transfer max 11Mbps. And since consumer printers dont print very fast, what's the big deal? And it it was made to be fast, it'd have a network jack for 100Mbps connectivity.

Surprised?

[Deaper]

Does this actually surprise anyone? I mean these are the same people who have been decieving consumers for years with hard drive sizes. Do you actually think they're going to tell you the device doesn't work the way it should by labeling it as such? The record industry doesn't label crippled crap. Why should the computer industry? Why do consumers actually trust producers that constantly try to implement new technology that assume that the consumer is the one that can't be trusted? Does it make me angry that the producers keep doing this kind of crap? Yes. Does it surprise me? Not in the least.

When are they going to learn...

[A Commentor]

So the industry keeps thinking it can pull one over on the consumers and make more money, but it's just the lawyers that will win on this one...

• Just like:
• Screen sizes include areas you can't actually see. 15" really means 13.8"...
  
• Harddrive sizes are not what they seem. 1M == 1,000,000 bytes not 1024*1024.
  

The computer industry will keep making disceptive ads and lawyers doing class-action suits against them will keep getting rich. My guess is that the computer industry still make more money than they lose to the lawyers, so everyone is better off but the consumer...