In this article I am going to show you a handful of Windows 7 tools, some of which can be useful to even the most novice users.
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Archive for November, 2009
USB 3.0 Promises to Melt Faces
On November - 13 - 2009
It’s been a long time coming, but finally, a new version of USB has appeared and it is begging for us to plug it into something. Duly nicknamed “Superspeed USB”, it is 10 times faster than it’s current incarnation, USB 2.0. Pictured here is a standard USB 3.0 connection, sporting it’s new sexy blue innards.
Next to it is the mini connection, which will be used to connect MP3 players and other small devices. USB 3.0 is proudly touting a maximum physical-layer throughput of 5Gbps and application layer data rates of up to 350 Mbytes/second. These increased speeds are aimed to eliminate current problems with streaming HD video and other applications where today’s 480 Mbit/second USB 2.0 can be sluggish. Preliminary tests showed that USB 3.0 was possible of transferring a 25GB file in just under 70 seconds - a huge improvement over USB 2.0, which would take a face palming 14 minutes, while with USB 1.0 it would take a ‘go to sleep and hope it’s done in the morning’ 9.3 hours to transfer the same amount of data.
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