http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/ Engadget Comments for Dell, HP, and Lenovo bringing SDXC to laptops alongside 32nm Intel chipsets? 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/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Nov 30th 2009 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Nov 30th 2009 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/
Intel and Apple are just dragging their heels on usb 3.0 because they want lightpeak to be the dominant connection at that point...a real asshole thing to do, but smart]]>Nov 30th 2009 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Ok so lemme get this straight:
Intel is stalling on USB 3.0 and San Disk is stalling on 32Gb microSDHC.
They are killing me here. -_-
I've read some of the "the market doesn't demand it" bullshit but that doesn't fly with me... Motherboards, CPU, PSUs, GPUs all evolving but external data interfaces and memory cards are stagnant until the above companies are done milking every dime of existing products.

We need better competition but average Joe can't tell an Esata from a USB and can probably due with only 16GB in their phone.]]>Nov 30th 2009 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/
One of the MANY reasons that I don't like Intel or Apple.]]>Nov 30th 2009 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/
Still, lets not get all freaked out. This is the natural progression of ALL technology. Its easy enough to add USB 3.0 support through an external chip, just like the motherboards we're seeing being tested are doing. Sure really cheap laptops may not include USB 3.0 ports as a result. But higher end laptops likely will. And assuming things work out and the volumes go up and the spec doesn't get updated quickly to fix some problem, the things will go into the integrated silicon soon enough.]]>Nov 30th 2009 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/
Is there any good reason why anyone doesn't want Lightpeak to be the next dominant connector other than it's from Apple and Intel? Because I can't think of any. ]]>Dec 1st 2009 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Backward compatibility. A USB 3.0 device will work with any USB 2.0, 1.1, or 1.0 machine (nearly every machine in use today), But light peak will only work on the newest computers coming out in the future. And just so everyone knows, Apple is NOT assisting the the development of light peak and is just as constrained by intel not supporting USB 3.0 as any other computer manufacturer.
]]>Dec 1st 2009 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Nov 30th 2009 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Probably null. Most likely on new devices will support, like SDHC.

I don't know, seems to be the trend so far.]]>Nov 30th 2009 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/backwards compatibility is part of the draft-spec]]>Nov 30th 2009 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Nov 30th 2009 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Nov 30th 2009 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Dec 1st 2009 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/
Price & performance.]]>Nov 30th 2009 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Nov 30th 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Nov 30th 2009 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/
No matter what you do, it'll still be disappointingly slow, SDXC tops out at 20MB/sec or something. No SSD speeds for SD devices.]]>Nov 30th 2009 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/
35MBps write and 60MBps read ]]>Nov 30th 2009 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/
A simple Wikipedia search shows what the difference is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#File_system

There may not be much difference physically between SDHC and SDXC (HC has a theoretical max of 2TB, but artificially limited to 32GB, XC has a set limit of 2TB), but the max read speed for XC is set at 104MB/s and 300MB/s in the future. SDHC has a max of around 45MB/s I believe.

The new SDHC will be very nice for cameras with high-def recording.]]>Nov 30th 2009 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card#SD_Speed_Class_Ratings

So apparently we're not even close to 20MB/sec yet, let alone 108.]]>Dec 1st 2009 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/"Those incredibly sexy 64GB SDHX cards coming on the horizon?" Huh?]]>Nov 30th 2009 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Nov 30th 2009 11:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Dec 1st 2009 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Dec 1st 2009 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/The SDHC spec artificially limits its capacity to 32GB, but the technology is technically capable of up to 2TB

The SDXC spec allows up to 2TB

Just wanted to clear that up.

And I can't wait to have a 2TB card in my HD video device/PMP/Phone/whatever else they put in there by that time. Some other reasons for such an enormous card... A portable device that can hold all of your movies, music, and tv shows, and be a portable media center (a la ZuneHD); being able to increase system storage dramatically with a small card (for netbooks,etc.), being able to have all of my files and folders, anywhere. Who needs SSD/HDD when an SDXC could cover it?

So I hope they get them going and get them cheap enough for me to buy soon.]]>Dec 1st 2009 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/
HPs now have a laptop with a eSata port doubling as a USb port. My point being, with eSata and USb combine-able, the USb 3.0 (or optical based USb) doesn't seem as special as an SSD with eSata.]]>Dec 1st 2009 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/
Where did you get 200MB/sec from?]]>Dec 1st 2009 2:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Their site:
http://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdxc

They are 104 right now and will hit 200MB/s next year.

Class 6= 6 MByte/s or 40x, not even close to 104MB/s or what their site says the potential could be.]]>Dec 1st 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Dec 1st 2009 3:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Dec 1st 2009 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/dell-hp-and-lenovo-bringing-sdxc-to-laptops-alongside-32nm-int/Dec 1st 2009 4:51AM