USB 3.0 Llamas

Looks like someone’s been putting acid in the Ars technica water supply…

There are an increasing number of devices that could potentially take advantage of the additional bandwidth, including external hard drives, flash readers, video cameras, and the all-new USB-compliant llama expected to be genetically delivered from the Andes sometime in late 2011. Obviously a USB llama wouldn’t be much use without a USB 3.0 device—ever tried downloading from a llama over an old 10BaseT network? Yeah. It’d be worse.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070918-intel-announces-demonstrates-usb-3-0.html

USB 3.0 sounds interesting but I wonder what the point is when we’ve got ethernet, SCSI and all the other standard protocols and connectors. Maybe in 10 years time everything in a PC will be USB - hard drives, network, keyboards, printers, the works.

Tags: Hardware, Humour