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New USB logos will simplify branding on hubs and cables
(www.techspot.com)
There ya go...
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.
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.
PD cables aren't expensive enough to just buy good ones have them for all your chargers.
Wasnt the parallel port also used for serial for awhile? Not quite perfect but better than now I suppose.
Although serial and parallel shared the same overall pin count and connector style, they used opposite genders and the two were incompatible.
Generally, If the port on the PC was male it was serial if the port was female it was parallel. But realistically you'd never see a 25-pin serial on a computer unless you were looking at something very ancient and strange. Even back into the '80s, The PCs used DB9 connectors for serial and adapters or the cable itself would have to convert it over the standard 25 pin connector on the modems.
Story is two years old apparently
https://www.pcworld.com/article/1339611/redesigned-usb-logos-finally-make-sense.html
I was going to say... I've had a cable with that logo on it for over a year.
Did the logo fix everything?
Well i still can't get the dock that came with it to output to multiple 4k monitors (even though it's supposed to be able to), so...
USB C Pro Max SuperSpeed Venti Extreme
Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry Series and New Funky Mode
If each of those things actually mean something that tells me about the potential connection, I'm all for it.
As it stands, the symbols and colors are adopted at random.
It mutilates your data
....Plus
aka Thunderbolt 4
4x4Gen4
You forgot the ".2"
Still the same as the 3.0.
Fucking finally
Now the EU needs to make it a legal requirement that every cable sold includes an engraving of the speed and watts on both ends.
The fact this dogshit continued for so long is unforgivable. Capitalism is most efficient my ass. It's like the USB specs naming convention was outsourced to the dumbest, most illiterate engineers alive.
On second thought, the profit motive indicates the naming convention was probably done to intentionally create confusion and sell more cables.
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.
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 can't even read the labels on the cables in the article photos.
...Because the image is crappy resolution, its like complaining you can't read without your glasses on.
That bottom one looks embossed instead of printed. At the size of a USB-C cable plug, that's going to be difficult to read outside of ideal lighting conditions.
That's still significantly better than having no markings at all.
It's a sample product packaging that has Lorem ipsum on it
The cable, not the package
It says 80G 240W, so it's a max speed max wattage spec cable. Not that hard to read even with the low res image really, but that's on techspot for compressing things
I'll believe it when I see it
Can’t wait for all the crapware to flood the market and slap that 80gbps logo on anything and everything
I'm waiting for the ones that'll just go zany and put "100GBps" or "100+ GBps!".
Because you know they will do that too.
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.
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.
Probably. But then again, if one says "USB 20Gbps", but the one next to it has "80Gbps", it might be better to have had "USB 3.2 Gen 2x2"
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Yeah something you don't have to further look up to figure out what it means. Just simpler.
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/
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.
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.
Can i not bitch about how shit things have been? Or that these fixes shouldn't even be necessary because they could have just not fucked it up in the first place?
I don't think you understand what's going on here lol
Damn that's a lot of bandwidth
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