Thunderbolt vs. SuperSpeed USB

Posted by Soulskill on Monday October 10, 2011 @05:51AM from the battle-of-connectivity dept.

Lucas123 writes "When it comes to performance, power and size, external I/O interconnect Thunderbolt handily beats SuperSpeed USB, but in the one critical category — ubiquity — it has an almost impossible uphill battle. Thunderbolt has a maximum 10Gbps signaling rate to SuperSpeed USB's 6Gbps and it offers more than twice the power to devices. To date, however, Apple is the only systems manufacturer to adopt Thunderbolt, and it has done so as an additional device connectivity port, keeping SuperSpeed USB on its computers. No other systems manufacturer has committed to Thunderbolt. In contrast, SuperSpeed USB has been installed on 10 billion pieces of hardware, with numbers continuing to grow."

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Re:TFA (-2, wrong) by Sponge+Bath · 2011-10-10 06:04 · Score: 5, Funny

They are holding out for LudicrousSpeed USB.
Re:TFA (-1, wrong) by localman57 · 2011-10-10 06:21 · Score: 4, Funny

I hope you were joking. Didn't they learn from Firewire?!
No. And they didn't learn from iLink either.
Re:TFA (-2, wrong) by Lucas123 · 2011-10-10 06:42 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah, that was my fault in the Slashdot submission, which I always write up far too quickly. The article doesn't say Apple has Superspeed USB on its systems -- the Slashdot summary does. Doesn't anyone on Slashdot take time to actually read the article?
Re:TFA (-1, wrong) by Mister+Whirly · 2011-10-10 07:27 · Score: 3, Funny

Big deal. I want to see Firewire explain why Steve Jobs is dead.

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