Real help in plugging USB 2.0 connectors: Close your eyes and let your fingers do the work. The logo on most plugs in larger or only on the "top" or "front" - once you get one right on a given hub, PC, or laptop, the rest will be the same. Lining them up straight with the jack is another issue I cannot help with, since we often find ourselves reaching around to plug in from the back under a customer's desk with a PC on it's side.
Dell monitor manufacturers take note: the worst thing you ever did was make all yours backwards in relation to the rest of the world. If you get that right on newer monitor models that will be the new worst thing ever when only some Dell monitors are backwards. Please leave them all wrong so we can learn it.
USB 3.0 backwards compatability and "keyed" connectors. hmmmm, How can we make the old plugs still fit while the new ones more obviously one way at the same time? Maybe that's the only thing they estimate will take till 2010 to figure out.
On Brute speed and firewire 3.2Gb vs USB 4.8Gb: eSATA 3Gb ("They" prefer 300 MB as more accurate name, blah, blah) is already on the shelves with a "real upgrade path" to 6Gb (600MB).
My best guess is your 2009 laptop will have all three standards, some in pre- or betaversion, and the version 3.8.63.2010 spec pre-N draft wireless built in as well.
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Excuse the capitals, I hope the manufacturers/designers read this in time :
**** WILL YOU PLEASE MAKE THE USB3.0 CONNECTOR SYMMETRICAL PLEASE ****
I don't know how many times I have endlessly turned over a USB connector, tried again, turned it over, tried again, turned it over....
Real help in plugging USB 2.0 connectors:
Close your eyes and let your fingers do the work. The logo on most plugs in larger or only on the "top" or "front" - once you get one right on a given hub, PC, or laptop, the rest will be the same.
Lining them up straight with the jack is another issue I cannot help with, since we often find ourselves reaching around to plug in from the back under a customer's desk with a PC on it's side.
Dell monitor manufacturers take note: the worst thing you ever did was make all yours backwards in relation to the rest of the world. If you get that right on newer monitor models that will be the new worst thing ever when only some Dell monitors are backwards. Please leave them all wrong so we can learn it.
USB 3.0 backwards compatability and "keyed" connectors. hmmmm, How can we make the old plugs still fit while the new ones more obviously one way at the same time? Maybe that's the only thing they estimate will take till 2010 to figure out.
On Brute speed and firewire 3.2Gb vs USB 4.8Gb: eSATA 3Gb ("They" prefer 300 MB as more accurate name, blah, blah) is already on the shelves with a "real upgrade path" to 6Gb (600MB).
My best guess is your 2009 laptop will have all three standards, some in pre- or betaversion, and the version 3.8.63.2010 spec pre-N draft wireless built in as well.
The gadget king-bus is dead, long live the gadget king-bus.