Fucking finally
Fine by me, as long as the Bluetooth logo is never changed. Long live King Harald Gormsson, the unifier!
Took long enough for someone over there to figure out they made some mistakes with recent branding. Glad they’ve finally made some positive changes for end users though.
Can’t wait for all the crapware to flood the market and slap that 80gbps logo on anything and everything
I’ll believe it when I see it
Damn that’s a lot of bandwidth
There ya go…
To be fair, these were better than the previous standards.
Nah, I preferred USB 4 gen 3.7, 3x3, so clear and concise…
/S
Agreed. I can’t stand the previous symbology.
It’s disturbing that I kinda miss the pre-USB days when, if the cable matched the port physically, it also matched the port in terms of capabilities (unless someone was doing something deliberately stupid). At least that meant you knew right away whether you had the right cable or not.
At least with barrel jacks that would have been an easy way to frie your electronics back then. With USB C you might encounter incompatibility, but at least you won’t break anything (with a few exceptions like the Nintendo Switch getting bricked by connecting certain 3rd party chargers to the official dock, or using a bad 3rd party dock)
USB-C has been a blessing and curse. One port that does everything, except when it doesn’t. Even charging is now complicated by the “guess the cable that supports the right PD type” game.
Not that the old days were much better. I don’t miss faffing around with the myriad of serial and parallel port modes and settings.
USB C Pro Max SuperSpeed Venti Extreme
aka Thunderbolt 4
Ultimately, it’s great that users won’t need to squint to read the fine print or cross-reference spec sheets once the labels gain popularity.
I can’t even read the labels on the cables in the article photos.
EDIT: I get it, you all have 20/10 vision and no astigmatism, thanks for your input.
Reality has a higher resolution than this potato photo.
I don’t think you understand what’s going on here lol
This isn’t that. It’s relabeling the existing USB standards in a way that actually makes sense finally.
Yeah, but the old labels won’t just magically disappear. Tech folks might know how to handle it but for everyone else it will be just more of the same. As far as they care for labeling to begin with.
You mean the 3.0, 3.1 gen 1 and 3.1 gen 2 that all was changed to the same thing?
Even the 3.2 gen 1 is the same as the others IIRC and you need like 3.2 gen2 2x2 to go to even 10gbps.
I’m maybe off a little bit but the gist is there, rant off/
I think this time the manufacturers will be pretty quick at adopting the new branding; if there’s two competing devices next to each other, one marked with “USB 3.2 Gen 2x2”, which no one understands, and other one with “USB 20Gbps” I think the latter will sell more.
Yeah something you don’t have to further look up to figure out what it means. Just simpler.
Does nothing for existing cables.
I mean… yeah? They’re not gonna break into your house and emboss new symbols on cables you already own.
You may as well be advocating against better food packaging labels because stuff you’ve bought already won’t benefit from it.
Yeah, this is about the 15th time they’ve done that.
But it’s the very first time that they are making them actually make sense.
Great, so let’s now do that with memory cards. Faster than Class 10? Call it Class 11, not Class 10 U1 or U3. Faster than Class 11? Call it Class 12. There’s no shortage of numbers. Let’s drop all this U1 U2 bollocks.
Yes, I am still sore about those Class 10 cards I bought for my dashcam that don’t fucking work because it wants U3 and they were U1.
