Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Mon 27th Apr 2009 22:01 UTC
Engadget pointed out that USBfever has already begun selling USB 3.0 cables a year ahead of schedule. "Interestingly, the cable's feature list says, 'it is 10 times faster than USB 2.0.' Sure, as long as it's hooked up to a USB 3.0 SuperSpeed host which it won't be until 2010." That seems a bit low-- luring in the uneducated and those who don't read before they buy.
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2008-07-15
What? Consumers read before they buy? What parallel universe you living in, nobody does that! </sarcasm>
That aside, one would think that the fact that there won't be any USB 3.0 hosts for another year, at minimum, would clue those with logical minds into the fact that it's not going to be faster than USB 2.0. The cable can only utilize as much bandwidth as the attached devices, and we simply have no USB 3.0 devices out in the wild at present.
Besides, how many general consumers are looking for USB cables online? Most of the people that don't research what they buy are the ones who pop into the local Walmart or whatever and buy a cable. I've noticed that those who shop online generally do more research, though obviously there are exceptions.
At any rate, USB 3.0 cables are useless at the moment though I suppose you could get them if they followed the standard properly and you wanted to future-proof your USB wiring.