“Intel on Tuesday said it would have a special event on Thursday to kick off the launch of a ‘new technology that is about to appear on the market,’ hinting at Light Peak in computers,” Electronista reports.
“The news will include both a San Francisco press brief as well as one at its Santa Clara campus that will include technology demos,” Electronista reports. “While it didn’t name Light Peak explicitly, the company just recently acknowledged that the interconnect was ready to be used.”
Electronista reports, “The timing has drawn attention as it lines up exactly with talk of new MacBook Pros being announced the same day.”
Read more in the full article here.
Read more: http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/02/22/intel.light.peak.event.lines.up.with.apple.rumors/#ixzz1EjLdZhb7
“It’s a series of tubes!”
will LP , one day, be used to connect a high speed modem to a mac?
Pretty nice, if it’s all true, that Apple already has the technology embedded in their product, on the same day Intel “launches” the new technology and makes it available generally.
How many devices do you know have LightPeak compatibility as opposed to USB. There’s just no logical impetus for Apple to make a leap in the dark and be an early adopter for the technology. What happens if you leave thousands of consumers stranded who have to fork out more money to buy adapters not to mention having to
Well, Apple did the same thing by early-adopting USB and FireWire, and I guess DisplayPort too.
Haha, same thing they said about the original iMac and USB.
Personally, I’d like to have nothing but Light Peak ports on my Mac as opposed to USB, FireWire, DisplayPort, etc..
There’s no “stranded”, all of these will plug into the Light Peak port and either the adapters will be cheap, or you’d just use a cable that was Light Peak on one end, and whatever format on the other (if that other format isn’t already directly compatible with Light Peak).
haha – LightPeak – leap in the dark
(That was deliberate, right?)
When I buy a external hard drive it comes equipped with Firewire 400, 800 and USB. The proverbial bases are covered and now I can ad LightPeak.
hang around waiting for the next Mac refresh cycle before finding a dribble of peripherals and printers adopting LP if at all. The only people interested in LP would be video professionals but you’d have to wait for device manufacturers to install it in their products before finding a use for the connector.
I think the DP-mini DP fiasco should have taught Apple a few lessons in not being a pioneer in esoteric connectors as pioneers receive nothing but arrows for their efforts especially in a nascent development like DP.
Marginal use at best. Total flop at worst.
You don’t seem to understand architecture and purpose of LightPeak. It is meant to displace ALL other ports. If Apple does end up adopting it on all Mac (and iOS) lines, there will be no need for ANY other ports on the device. The throughput of LightPeak is massive; you’ll be able to hook up ANY other kind of device (DVI, VGA, HDMI, MiniDisplay, USB1, USB2, USB2, FW400, FW800, possibly even SCSI, if someone bothers to implement an adapter).
Unlike with adoption of USB, which required an actual USB device in order to be useful, LightPeak will allow almost ANY other type of device (either peer-to-peer, such as FW, or host-client architecture, such as USB) to communicate.
With a bit of luck, we have a chance of finally getting the ultimate solution to the alphabet soup of ports. If anyone can pull it off, Apple can.
A lot of displays from people like NEC or Samsung that are intended for the digital signage market are DisplayPort-equipped.
And loads of people (ordinary consumers) who are sick to the back teeth of having multiple FW and USB cables trailing everywhere would love LightPeak’s “one cable to rule them all” simplicity.
There’s no reason why Apple couldn’t keep the other ports on their computers until Light Peak has saturated the market.
Dude. What are u talking about? Chicken or the egg dude?! No one’s making lightpeak? Let’s not put it in computers then! Someone has to do it… Why not the guy selling millions of computers?
It also just sounds cool and will sell like hotcakes internationally simply cos it sounds like a miniature warp drive on the back of your apple machine.
As Howard Hughes once said “It’s the way of the future, the way of the future!”
“It also just sounds cool and will sell like hotcakes internationally simply cos it sounds like a miniature warp drive on the back of your apple machine.”
Yeah, but when there is no actual ‘LIGHT’ in this meagre v1.0 of “LIGHT”Peak, we are supposed to give a crap because WHY? Hyping up what amounts to LAMEWARE has never been Apple’s manifesto or strong suit. That’s more in line with Microsoft, Dell, HP, Samsung, Sony, Intel, ad nauseam…
Oh and Google! Can’t forget Google.
Hopefully it will be cheap to use and produce, so that we can see early widespread adoption.
If Monster makes a cable it will cost 10 times more than it should.
Stuff it
The “LightPeak” name is Intel’s. I wonder if Apple would call it something like “FireWire Pro” on their machines.
Right. Just like the called USB ‘FireWire Jr.’
Well, what if “operators are standing by” and places like OWC, Lacie, etc. have Light Peak devices ready to go as soon as it’s announced? Apple may have LP devices in their stores as soon as the new MBP hits.
We can dream…
In Europe we want Light Peak now !!!
Is anyone else starting to think this update is going to be a major refresh?
The only concern I have is Apple’s rumored workaround for Intel’s SATA tech f*ckup in Sandy Bridge. Is Apple’s workaround good enough? Or will it cause side effects? Is it worth waiting for actual, repaired, finished Sandy Bridge Mac Book Pros?
Just maybe Apple will be announcing, but waiting to release, the affected MBPs until Intel get it right, which Intel announced would be at the end of February.
*SUSPENSE*
Those errors did not affect any Apple machines, which is why Apple hasn’t had to delay anything. That story was covered here at the time.
The errors do NOT affect Apple machines? How? Apple is incorporating Sandy Bridge chips in some of their machines. If Apple doesn’t incorporate SATA-II drives in their machines, their customer most definitely will be connecting SATA-II external drives to them! So I don’t see your point.
Also, I was part of the original discussion of the Sandy Bridge blunder by Intel. No one and nothing established that Sandy Bridge and SATA-II had nothing to do with Apple computers. Again, huh?