This is about the stupidest thing I've read for quite some time. People are confused enough without this kind of deception. :mad::confused:
The trade group responsible for marketing the USB peripheral interface has given the older 1.1 specification a speed-boost -simply by changing its name.
Of course 1.1, superseded by the much speedier 2.0 specification, hasn't really got any faster. But the USB Implementors Forum (USB-IF) has decided that vendors can describe USB 1.1 ports as USB 2.0 ports.
Now they can describe the old specification as "Full Speed" and the newer, 2.0 specification as "High Speed." The Bangkok Post notes that this puts vendors in breach of EU trades description legislations. Whoops.
USB 2.0 was never intended to be branded with a version number. Instead, the USB-IF dubbed it 'Hi-speed USB'. USB 1.1 was to be known as plain old 'USB'. Manufacturers have nevertheless insisted on sticking with the version numbers, which is what seems to have cause all the trouble.
Apparently consumers were shunning older models.
"I now understand the new full-speed and high-speed naming, but what is going to happen when USB 3.0 is released? Is it going to be 'Really High Speed'?," asks an editorial in GeekNews
It's not the first bit of semantic ethnic cleansing we've seen this year. A handful of vendors have hijacked the 4G bandwagon, hoping that this will put them in the driving seat when the real 4G specification is passed. ®
Does this mean you will work faster mouse?
Dunno... Spin your mouse around your screen a few times and see if you get dizzier faster... :D
-sage-
o_O
i didn't understand a word of that article :p
let me get this straight...this USB 2 card I just bought could potentially be a USB 1.1.....how crappy...I needed the high speed for my stupid scanner....grrrr.....
Jason
the only usb 2.0 thing i've got is a regular ultra/100 hard drive in an enclosure, and it gets nowhere near 480mbit/sec. i can transfer about 10MB/sec to/from which is about as fast as transferring across my 100TX network. still it's better than the ~950kB/sec i get out of it on a usb 1.1 connection.
Its been like this for a while, however most places still call it USB 1.1 (or USB 1.0) or USB 2.0...