On 21 Mar 2011, at 14:00, [email protected] wrote: > The problem in that regard though is that lightpeak is fast... Just not fast > enough for one of the core concepts. It doesn't have enough bandwidth for > full flow displayport, and would be wiped out by uncompressed hdmi. > > So, since its a hub and spoje methhod, you'd wipe it out in one device. Its > support for data and relaying other standards over it is fantastic. But I > think the adoption rate is going to be low. The problem is, some look at > it as 'the standard to rule all standards' but native devices will be few and > far between. Its hard to be a lightpeak native device when your market > consists of 3 total macbooks for the next nine months. That's why even > devices like iPad2 don't have a lightpeak data connector.
I'm going to have to interject there, the iPad2 doesn't have a lightpeak data connector because the I/O Logic chip for lightpeak is absolutely HUGE... at least by mobile device standards. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/new-macbooks-torn-open-thunderbolt-chip-revealed/ Also, I _believe_ that the displayport channels sideband the 10Gb/s data channels rather than over them? -JB
