Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I finally got a new laptop with a lone USB 3.0 port. I'm now looking at getting a USB 3.0 hub with a power adapter so I can use both of my USB 3.0 hard drives at faster speeds. I've read lots of horror stories where some hubs either don't come with power adapters -- and as a consequence the portable drives don't work with them properly -- or they are designed poorly which results in USB 2.0 speeds. Or, the hard drives keep getting disconnected. Do your readers have any suggestions or experience using USB 3.0 hubs? Thanks!"
It's kinda funny, because the hottest selling system at the moment? Only one "SKU". Hell, up until the X360, there was no such concept as an "SKU". Why burden the customer with choice and the developers with the chore of supporting the lower-spec systems?
Hey Vrignaud, just because you cocked up as director of "technical strategy" and now have a proliferation of SKUs that make buying your system a headache for users and developers alike doesn't mean Sony would follow down your garden path.
"It's kinda funny, because the hottest selling system at the moment? Only one "SKU". Hell, up until the X360, there was no such concept as an "SKU". Why burden the customer with choice and the developers with the chore of supporting the lower-spec systems?"
I do recall Sony starting this whole "SKU" fiasco with the PlayStation and the PlayStation Slimline with the PS1, and then doing the same thing for a short while with the PS2, before going all Slimline.
Also, choice is what makes the 360 so awesome, not to mention developers are never thrown into the mix. They never have to "support the lower-spec systems" because the difference between core and top of the line is nothing more than a storage capacity change and maybe WiFi and memory reader removal... That doesn't change the vital internals at all...
"I do recall Sony starting this whole "SKU" fiasco with the PlayStation and the PlayStation Slimline with the PS1, and then doing the same thing for a short while with the PS2, before going all Slimline."
The slimmer versions were revised hardware that fit in a smaller case; there was no change to the spec of the systems (though in the case of the slim PS2 they added ethernet support while removing the possibility of the harddrive).