Apple To Unveil Light Peak, New MacBook Pros This Week?

An anonymous reader writes "Apple will reportedly soon make an announcement regarding a new high-speed connection technology. And as luck would have it, this comes hot on the heels of a report that Apple will release a slew of new MacBook Pros later this week. For some time now, reports have abounded detailing Apple and Intel's cooperation on a new transfer technology dubbed Light Peak capable of transferring data at 10GB/s both up and down. Could this find its way into Apple's new lineup of MacBook Pros as has been previously rumored?"

Not a very high quality article.

[Andy Dodd]

The article makes claims that Intel "Is delaying" USB 3.0 "until 2010" to help Light Peak get off the ground.

Problem 1: It's 2011. You can't be "delaying something until 2010" in 2011...
Problem 2: USB 3.0 is deployed already. So they clearly can't be delaying it.

Re:Where does Light Peak fit?

[JesseDegenerate]

First, it's intel's tech, not apples. Second, apple's pushed alot of good tech forward, maybe it's just that i'm not a bigot, but who cares who's pushing it? Would you rather sony push it and rename it ilink2? I'm sure you wouldn't have a problem with Google pushing it? which makes your post, infuriating to me. Any company that brings it, even in a proprietary form will spur on innovation. I didn't hear anything about DLNA until Apple started pushing airplay. The rise of android can be easily traced to apple's iphone, and a very worried verizon wireless. it's good for us all, ffs.

Re:Not a very high quality article.

[Anonymous Coward]

Problem 2: USB 3.0 is deployed already. So they clearly can't be delaying it.

Intel has yet to release a USB 3.0 chipset themselves - other companies have released them, which is why there are products on the market, but Intel hasn't. That's why you see it on such few computers at this point - it isn't incredibly high end, but Intel is withholding because they want to give LightPeak a fighting chance. (At least that's the theory) Once Intel comes out with a USB 3.0 chipset, it will be much more prevalent.

Re:Yet another Apple "standard"

[UnknowingFool]

The pro/cons aside, Light Peak is an Intel invention. Secondly, from what I read this is an interconnect on the board level. From the consumer's perspective they will still use their USB, SATA cables or whatever. The MB manufacturers are the ones affected.

Re:What's the use

[je ne sais quoi]

You had me going until this statment:

Since this is an Intel standard (albeit sponsored and pushed by Apple) it doesn't come with the restrictions that Apple would have placed on it if it were their own standard.

This is complete and total bullshit. Apple has promoted open standards FOR YEARS. Webkit? Apple's (yes I know it was built off of khtml). CUPS? Apple owns and maintains it. HTML5 vs. flash? Apple supports the open standard. Firewire? Apple was one of the few major players to support it. USB? Apple helped drive the wide-spread adoption of USB by forcing its use with the imacs.

The bottom line is that if you think Apple doesn't support open standards, you're either a troll or badly misinformed. It could be you're thinking of another major industry player [microsoft.com] who likes to buy off standards committees [arstechnica.com].

Re:Yet another Apple "standard"

[s73v3r]

As opposed to the legacy technology that's still in use by every other company?

Tell me, how is that Microsoft PlaysForSure?

Another parasitic blog that scrambles the facts

[1u3hr]

I'm pretty tired of Slashdot allowing any twat to plagiarise a story, (in this case from CNET at http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20033940-64.html [cnet.com] )and screw up a few facts (eg, they confuse Gigabits with Gigabytes; only out by a factor of 8), submit it "anonymously" and then drive traffic to their crummy site.