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[Giles Orr]

On 7 February 2013 09:52, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 05:29:42PM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
>> The "Next Unit of Computing" comes equipped with "Three external USB
>> 2.0 ports."  Seriously?  USB3 is readily available and three times as
>> fast.  Accessing a 2TB external HD through a USB2 port is
>> molasses-in-winter fun.  "Next Unit" implies progress, but all that
>> seems to have changed is the size ...  Or, depending on how you look
>> at it, not even that - this is essentially a fat net-top with a better
>> chip.
>
> USB3 is 10 times the speed of USB2.  Your disk of course is nowhere near
> the speed of USB3 though but is faster than USB2.
>
> Remember intel hasn't put USB3 ports in their chips yet.  All boards
> with USB3 I have seen so far use external PCIe chips from other makers
> (Usually ASMedia).

According to Wikipedia's entry on Ivy Bridge, the chipset does include
USB3 - and they do make Ivy Bridge i3 chips.  The NUC may well use an
older i3, but I think it's a poor move to not include USB3 either way.

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