Three new 10.1-inch Asus EeePCs are all set to debut when the curtains go up on CeBIT this time around. All we manage to unearth is this info and a handful of scarce specs. However, it is expected that Asus would be bringing in charmers of the top slot when it lifts the wraps off the three machines. Gear up for some exclusive gear from Asus soon.
USB 3.0 is the latest upgrade to the world’s most popular connectivity port. It will offer data transfer speeds of upto 5 Gbps making it more than 10 times faster than USB 2.0. And today, NEC has announced a new chipset whose bus speeds could exceed the USB 3.0 speeds over 3 times. Thats a whooping 16 Gbps!
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Did you ever have spare hard drives lying around, too small in capacity to actually waste a slot in the PC and too much of a trouble to put in a USB casing as the transfer speeds are so slow. Well, with the arrival of USB 3.0 compatible board early next year, a few innovative applications are coming out which makes use of the awesome bandwidth offered by the port.Brando, manufacturer of assorted gadgets and accessories has introduced a new USB3.0 to SATA adapter to make use of the new port.
Right now, the most popular ways of connecting any device that uses video data is by HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort, and to a lesser extent, using D-SUB ( VGA ). But come next year, the most “universal” connectivity port, the USB itself, may give them a run for their money. The DisplayLink is a protocol with which monitors can receive video signals over USB.
Japanese technology giant Buffalo, today introduced their new ExpressCard USB 3.0 adapter. The IFC-EC2U3/UC, will bring the 5Gbps data transfer rates of the new USB standard to any user whose notebook has an ExpressCard slot. This will be a really big upgrade from the USB 2.0 standard which offered speeds of upto 480 Mbps.
The So SuperSpeed Hard Drives (HDDs), which have been much anticipated from the house of Dane-Elec, will hit the US mart on December 11, 2009. The new series of USB 3.0 external drives will come loaded with storage options ranging from 500 GB to 2 TB. The series will also include the world’s first USB 3.0 Solid State Drive (SSD), which would have the capability of true data transfer speeds of up to 250MB per second.
The data transfer speeds of up to 250MBps would, in fact, be close to 10 times the rate available in current USB 2.0 devices. To be available in 2.5 or 3.5-inches formats for laptops and desktop computers, the new series of external drives will support the upcoming USB 3.0 standard, Dane-Elec said.
