There are no USB or eSATA or SD or any such ports on the front because they don't look as nice. Illirik Smirnov
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:39 PM, JOHN CARMONNE <carmo...@aol.com> wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2010, at 9:25 AM, John Martz wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:43 AM, JOHN CARMONNE <carmo...@aol.com> wrote: >> >>> Will Apple ever support eSATA? >>> >> >> I tend to doubt it. My total wild-ass speculating guess is that this >> might be a Steve Jobs sort of thing. eSATA does not supply power to >> the external device and perhaps "the Steve" has deemed this to be as >> inappropriate as a two button mouse? Maybe they'll add support for >> eSATA with power (e-SATAP ?) at some future date? >> >> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:43 AM, JOHN CARMONNE <carmo...@aol.com> wrote: >> >>> What's the deal on USB 3.0? >>> >> >> I don't know what the deal is with USB 3.0. I would have expected it >> to be integrated into the motherboard chipsets by now. But it was >> pointed out to me in another thread that Intel is currently talking as >> though there is no need to incorporate USB 3.0 until sometime towards >> the end of 2011 or perhaps even 2012? >> >> PC motherboards currently support USB 3.0 by incorporating a non-Intel >> chip. The only response Intel appears to have to that is to announce >> plans to sell their own discrete USB 3.0 support chip. >> >> I think Intel has its corporate bureaucratic head up its butt. >> Apparently the planners expect they can do the transition to USB 3.0 >> the same way that the move to USB 2.0 was done i.e. pretty much on >> their terms. However, no one seems to have checked with the Chinese >> manufacturers. They don't seem to care one bit about Intel's plans and >> are tossing USB 3.0 devices at the market with what appears to be an >> increasing pace. >> >> The market may well move fast enough on its own to leave Intel behind >> (at least for a bit). >> >> What truly surprises me is that AMD has not tried to exploit this by >> integrating USB 3.0 into one of their chipsets. Oh, well. >> >> My Macish point here is that I don't see Apple adding USB 3.0 support >> until Intel integrates it. Maybe they'll go the separate chip support >> route if the market builds enough. And/or if there are enough >> competing USB 3.0 chips out there for Apple to pit one against the >> other and get them at close to cost. >> >> USB 3.0 on a Mac would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath in >> anticipation. >> >> Well that leaves the MacPro for those of us that want to buy a new > machine, And a good reason not the sell the older "dogs" that are more > suited to all the methods of large and fast data transfer. > I keep sticking up for Ap,le on the SD front because I think maybe that > will become a new universal transfer port other than a camera, like maybe > the new SSD drives are?? Like any day there'll be a brand new device come > out that will plug into the SD port on all the Apple units and be a super > connection to all systems. > > > > JOHN CARMONNE > Yorba Linda USA > From TiBook 800 > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
