USB 1 bottlenecking 54 mbs base station?

nordstrodamusnordstrodamus
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
It seems Apple really doesn't like USB 2. Why else would they bottleneck the connection to USB peripherals attached to the base station?



If this is the "year of the notebook" why would they prohibit something really cool like hooking up a USB 2 drive to your base station for some wirelessly accessible additional storage?



I guess there just waiting for Firewire 800 to be ubiquitous on their machines before bringing in USB 2. BTW, why just FW 2 on the 17 incher?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    kecksykecksy Posts: 1,002member
    I think the USB port is only meant for printers. Printers don't need 480MBs of bandwdith.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    razzfazzrazzfazz Posts: 728member
    [quote]Originally posted by Kecksy:

    <strong>I think the USB port is only meant for printers. Printers don't need 480MBs of bandwdith.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Exactly. I guess it wouldn't even support anything but printers software-wise.



    Bye,

    RazzFazz
  • Reply 3 of 3
    spiffsterspiffster Posts: 327member
    IIRC, anything mounted on a computer connected to your network, can be acessed remotely. That means that a firewire port on the airport for anything but a printer would be useless, but then again are there firewire printers?
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