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Windows 11 now supports USB4 at 80Gbps, also known as USB 4 2.0 | Faster USB4 devices could start appearing in 2024 (www.techspot.com)
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Windows 11 now supports USB4 at 80Gbps, also known as USB 4 2.0 | Faster USB4 devices could start appearing in 2024::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If USB4 is so good, why isn't there USB4 2?

USB-IF:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They were this close to fixing the whole USB 3.X mess.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

They cannot, capitalist greed. The companies want to sell absolutely garbage cables and call it a higher number to fool absolute idiots so we have this naming mess.

It will absolutely never get better for ANY consortium that listens to the will of capitalists. Because that shit hurts profits and the utopian notion of growth is sacred more than any holy book to them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A higher number makes sense and is useful.

USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 isn't useful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Aren't these internal names?

Also, you can call a shitty device USB 3. You can call a super juiced up device USB 3 as well. The consumer had to go dig in the manual to find out what generation and speed it actually is.

See the point?

A lot of USB flash drives advertise themselves as USB 3 with wildly varying speeds