http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
He did say Apple Computers, which would be a specific set of PC's. And when he referred to PC's well that would mean all of them, so he is correct saying that.]]>Oct 8th 2009 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
STFU

You know damn well that Windows computers are commonly referred to as PCs. Take a look at the "I'm a PC", and the "Hi! I'm a Mac. I'm a PC."

When was the last time someone referred to a Mac as a PC? Link me to something recent, now.

Nobody thinks you're cool, acting all contrary on the internet.]]>Oct 8th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/]]>Oct 8th 2009 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
"The issue with Firewire was it under an Apple license so it was more expensive to get started"

The license for Apple FireWire costs $1.00 so price is definitely not an issue.
]]>Oct 8th 2009 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
Sell millions of PCs each year, and that licensing cost will make you think very hard about whether or not the target demographic will want/need Firewire on one of your models.

$1 may not sound much, but it's quite a lot in market dominated by razor-thin margins.]]>Oct 8th 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/> "Sell millions of PCs each year, and that licensing cost will make you think very hard about whether or not the target demographic will want/need Firewire on one of your models. $1 may not sound much, but it's quite a lot in market dominated by razor-thin margins."

Well, most Dell and HP laptops over the years have had a 4 pin Firewire port. And they sell a crap-ton of laptops...

Any clue on why they did that?]]>Oct 8th 2009 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Don't let them bring you down. I support you fully on this issue.

I understand if some old lady thinks a Mac is not a PC, but visitors of a technology related site should know better.


And it's incredibly ironic and sad how crawdad689 used the primary cause of this misunderstanding (the Apple ads) as a justification.

...
http://www.pcmech.com/article/reality-check-a-mac-is-a-pc/]]>Oct 9th 2009 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
Will it be possible to make cheap USB 3.0 to Light Peak (or vice versa) adapters?


Can someone correct me if I'm wrong here? The way I've understood it is that Light Peak is essentially the interface to end all interfaces. That everything from hard drives to ethernet cables, to display interfaces, to firewire, to EVERYTHING USB, will be manufactured with this standard. That in the future, computers will simply have a few (or several) Light Peak ports on them, and NO other ports, whatsoever. Is this the case? What's realistic, here?
]]>Oct 8th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
It's hard to tell what will be successful in the future, but from a purely tech perspective, it is possible that a new connectivity option might become ubiquitous for multiple types of data.

But I think it's worth noting that firewire800 could also handle networking, peripherals, audio, and displays. ]]>Oct 8th 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
"The issue with Firewire was it under an Apple license so it was more expensive to get started"

The license for Apple FireWire costs $1.00 so price is definitely not an issue.]]>Oct 8th 2009 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
Nice try tho.]]>Oct 9th 2009 5:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
Also, I'm not sure whether a fiber optic-only port is the way forward for a universal port. Those cables aren't exactly taking abuse kindly, the majority of devices take little to no advantage of the high speed (think mice, keyboards, digicams, MP3 players, printers, scanners, or practically everything other than external mass storage, displays and video recording devices and *maybe* networking, one day)...it just seems a lot of fuss for little gain in every day life.]]>Oct 8th 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10360047-264.html ]]>Oct 8th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
That's easy. I don't listen to fail arguments.]]>Oct 8th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
Yes, Intel developed the technology, we get it, but at the request of Apple. Not Dell, not HP, not Microsoft. Apple. Apple deserves some kind of credit for this. And if Apple comes out with the tech in their computers before others, it's going to be amusing to see how you guys try to spin it negatively.

]]>Oct 8th 2009 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
Intel's director of optical input-output program office also said "We've developed the technology, we've developed the specifications, documenting the technology, and we have prototype product"

The only people who have mentioned Apple are Engadget's "sources". I'm just responding to what information is out there, which shows that Intel probably sent the idea to Apple to let them play around with it, rather than the other way around.]]>Oct 8th 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
And this isn't the first time. Remember when Intel developed a processor for the MacBook Air just for Apple Yeah, it eventually was used in competing PCs, but it was designed originally for Apple. So those "sources" Engadget used sound very reliable to me.]]>Oct 8th 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
Apple is betting on Light Peak with Intel
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/09/30/why-apple-is-betting-on-light-peak-with-intel-a-love-story/]]>Oct 8th 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
(Of course, I know it won't)]]>Oct 8th 2009 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
Those of us actually into technology including and outside of Apple stuff know that Intel has been developing this for ages and they are not the only one. USB 3.0 also has an optical standard using fiber.
As usual the Apple lovers who never hear about or understand actual technological research think Apple invents everything. Do you really think Firewire would have been born without Sony ?]]>Oct 8th 2009 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/
Crazy dream: Want to make everyone happy? Make LP backwards compatible with USB 3.0.]]>Oct 8th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/light-peak-supplier-says-mass-production-to-start-early-2010/Oct 8th 2009 2:55PM