USB 3.0 for Mac benchmarks and review

Hardly. Granted, Light Peak is pretty damn neat, but USB is a well established standard. It'll take at least 2-3 years after its release before you start seeing LP devices saturate the market like USB is today.

At worst, this'll be the last USB generation. But it won't die as the moment LP shows up. You might as well grab a couple USB 3.0 thumbdrives and enjoy the extra speed while you wait for that next big thing.

Apple don't need to saturate the whole market, just the high-end side. You're going to have more >$500 machines running USB3 for starters, and Apple can take the hit for adding LP to their MacBooks.
Apple can add LP into their Mac lineup, and that'll mean millions of LP compatible Macs - which can then use LP compatible ecosystem products.
They can have USB3 too - not a problem.

LP can bring daisy chaining, possible MagSafe/USB3 dual cables, and is a peer if not better than the other standards coming up (HDMI (ethernet which is a shockingly low speed), USB3 etc).

What was the USB3 like compared to eSATA? Annoying that you need the updated Expresscard to run USB3 via Expresscard, but (so early 2009 MBP and before won't have this)

Where did you get that? I think they just happen to be using LaCie drives. They were probably given to Engadget by LaCie.

Nevermind. I found what they were saying about that. That's complete BS if even a handful of drives don't work for whatever reason.


To james below: I never had any problems with the drives themselves, but the power supplies go out in a way that makes it look like a bad drive. I used to use nothing but LaCie externals until 3-4 of them had the same problem. To their credit, they did replace all of them and two of them were a little out of warranty.