Not sure about desktops but I'm fairly sure some third party company will create a USB 3.0 express card for macbook users. If anyone's willing to donate a free MacPro, USB 3 card and SuperSpeed gadgets and cables - I'll blog about and report my Mac experience in detail. (Perhaps the card and drive can handle the 'how fast' issue at a hardware level?)

I'm really not sure - yet - But for simple things like Buffalo's USB3 PCI-e card and, say, Western Digitals new external USB3 interface hard drive - Apple may not NEED to write 'special 3.0 drivers' to support rather simple USB MASS STORAGE block data transfer. So even keyboards with built-in USB3 ports will be a smart thing to have, with far fewer 'There's not enough power' warnings popping up onscreen when you plug something in. Even the higher milliwatt power available on a USB 3.0 port will be a boon to charging iPods, iPhones and whatnot in half the time - and syncing data on handheld devices will be far swifter. It's a better match for the demands of HDTV Tuners and capture devices, Solid-State SSD flash drives, ultra-high resolution image scanners - things that USB 2.0 already has a problem keeping up with. The 10-fold speed improvements of USB3 promises benefits for more than just hard drives. Even if Apple pursues 'Light Speed' or whatever - it'll still be a 'higher-level' bus technology that'll be able to interface to a USB 3 controller (or FireWire, or any other physical interface types) and grant access to the flood of SuperSpeed 3.0 devices that will hitting the market. I'm tracking the naescent, emerging market at my USB 3.0 For Mac website. USB 3.0 SuperSpeed on the Mac is an inevitability. I assume that we can't use this card on a Mac? At least we will be missing some driver I guess.?Īnyone here know anything about plans for USB3 support in OSX? I am very interested in getting USB3 on my MacPro.

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