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USB 3.0 the Real Deal, SATA 6GB Not Yet
MojoKid writes "HotHardware has posted a sneak peek at a new motherboard Asus has coming down the pipe with USB 3.0 and SATA 6G support. The Asus P7P55D-E Premium has a PLX PCI Express Gen 2 switch implementation that connects to NEC USB 3.0 and Marvell SATA 6G controller chips. With a USB 3.0 enabled external hard drive connected to a USB 2.0 port and then to the board's USB 3.0 port, there were some rather impressive gains to observe. When connected to a USB 3.0 port, the external hard drive was about 5 — 6x faster versus connecting over USB 2.0, with total throughput in excess of 130MB/sec. On the other hand, benchmarks with Seagate's new Barracuda XT SATA 6G drive show little performance difference but a burst rate that is off the charts. According to ATTO, there are slight overall performance benefits to be had connecting the drive to the SATA 6G controller, but the deltas were quite small; somewhere in the neighborhood of 5MB/s or so."
Firewire 800 has been a bottleneck for even consumer storage for years, and nobody has been too interested in fixing it. I just don't get the appeal, it sucks compared to eSata for storage and it sucks compared to USB2 for everything else.
Now even Apple is dropping Firewire from their most popular models. If faster versions of 1394 don't leave the vaporware stage before USB3 is rolled-out, you can safely forget about it.
Why would you buy a PC that only had USB 1, or use it for file transfers? SCSI has been around longer than USB 1, and Firewire has been around longer than USB 2.
... and then they built the supercollider.
It's an unfortunate inevitability of life -- everybody poops. And
while this task can occasionally provide us with an opportunity to
relax or engage in some deep thinking, there are other instances when
this basic undertaking becomes a chore no person should have to
endure. Whether or not these stooling sessions can be tolerated, is
often determined by one single factor: where it is taking place? If
you're alone in the privacy of your own home, why not make an hour of
it and get some reading in? However, if you're at work with your boss
sitting in the adjacent stall, you'd better hold off on dropping
anything for fear of creating an embarrassing splash. With that in
mind though, things could be worse, and here are eight examples of how
much worse..
8-The Wilderness Toilet
This is essentially taking a #2 in a wall-less bathroom. Sure,
you're in a pretty remote location, but it's not so remote that they
haven't needed to accommodate other people with full bowels. At any
second, some fellow hiker could round that nearby group of trees and
put an eyeball on you while you prepare to release yesterday's granola
bar. It's also safe to assume that since this toilet is on a path
intended for people who want to get away from the hectic bustle of
society, that same society's emphasis on cleanliness and sterile
toilets is far removed as well. And since the act of pooping leaves
man at nearly his most helpless, this would seem like the ideal time
for a voracious wild animal to attack. So, not only is this an
uncomfortable practice, but it's a dangerous one as well.
7-School
Kids can be merciless. They will go to great measures to find any
points of weakness in their unfortunate victims, and to a youth,
finding out that someone has been pooping presents an incredible
opportunity for ridicule. Yet, at times your body requires you to crap
at these academic establishments, and so you are immediately presented
with the impossible task of somehow taking an undetectable dump, or
completely leaving school. If you excuse yourself from class, the time
you spend in the bathroom will surely be recorded by your callous
peers, and upon return, you will be thoroughly mocked. If you try and
poop in between class, you'll be too worried about the possibility of
being tardy, and you'll probably pinch it off before you're completely
done. And even if you muster up the courage to attempt this risky
procedure, there's always the risk of someone walking in and berating
you while you take part in what should be one of mankind's most
private moments. So please children, let each other poop in peace.
6-Your New Girlfriend/Boyfriend's House
Let's say you're about to leave your newly-acquired significant
other's residence after your first sleep over, when nature suddenly
decides this would be the perfect moment to defecate. Maybe it's the
nerves after a night of apprehensive tongue-kissing and heavy petting,
or maybe it's the three-bean taco salad you ate prior to the
caressing, but whatever the case, your body's telling you it needs to
be relieved immediately. Now the bathroom in this situation is
certainly not the problem; it's clean, and probably provides some sort
of reading material. The problem is what will happen to this new and
delicate relationship once the odorous evidence of your actions hits
the air. There may be an air-freshener, or perhaps you're carrying
some matches, but that will only mask the smell, and the psychological
damage of having your body demonstrate what it's like at its most foul
will forever remain in the nostrils of their brain. This will
permanently change how your significant other looks at you.
5-The Port-a-Potty
Here's what the Port-a-Potty brings to waste elimination sessions:
One--They're typically found in unfamiliar, public locations that can
make an already-taxing exercise more stres
"so popular". lol. yeah, all 5 users of firewire. all 5 of them!
they couldn't do it without US.
"But in the end, none of that really matters, because God gave us the Earth to burn, chop, consume, pollute as much as we damn well please. Have you heard? To hell with reverence and integrity and treading lightly. He supplied us with all these bountiful riches because He wanted us to gobble it all up as fast as possible. I mean, obviously.
You have but to ask any high-ranking Republican -- like, say, effeminate sea slug Lindsay Graham from South Carolina, who, when asked about energy policy, will tell you flat out, "We must use the coal God gave us."
Isn't that touching? Make you proud to be a human? It's still the mindset of millions. Do not cherish or conserve or sit in humble awe. Instead merely drill, nuke and devour. Hey, it's what Jesus wanted. Unless it wasn't. Didn't you already suspect as much?"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/10/28/notes102809.DTL
So the question really is whether anybody would use a tape-based digital format on a MacBook.
I don't think high-end stuff is really the market for a MacBook. Do desktop and server Macs still have firewire?
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Ever heard of rhetorical questions?
Assuming you did not - since you failed to see mine - let me answer your question which seems somewhat odd comming from somebody who obviously doesn't know what a rhetorical question is; "No".
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