<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e8116a60-c31d-471d-9d62-aa3c0cc89a6d/25DC9922-72FF-4100-9AE8-24D40BF3C62D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/w5ecWT0FI58/" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/w5ecWT0FI58/" style="font-size: 11px;">feedproxy.google.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/w5ecWT0FI58/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It’s fast: Dubbed Super-Speed USB, it will <A href="http://www.gizmag.com/usb-30-next-generation-speed/11920/" target="_blank">offer transfer speeds of 4.8 Gbps</A> compared with High-Speed USB 480Mbps transfer speeds.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/w5ecWT0FI58/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It’s backwards compatible: Your existing USB 2.0 stuff will also work on the 3.0 ports and vice versa, although you won’t get the “super speeds.”</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/w5ecWT0FI58/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It’s coming soon: Vendors will ship some boards at the end of this year, so mainstream consumers should see them on their computers and certain devices starting in 2010.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/w5ecWT0FI58/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It’s powerful: Like USB 2.0, it will transmit electricity, which means you can still use it to charge your gadgets.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/w5ecWT0FI58/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It’s energy efficient: It supports reduced power operation and an idle power mode, but it will still make your CPU work like crazy to help it reach those fast data transfer speeds.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/w5ecWT0FI58/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It’s backed by all vendors: Early on, both <A href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-9961783-64.html" target="_blank">AMD and Nvidia were kind of miffed</A> at Intel for holding back on some of the specification details, but that’s all over, and everyone’s now on board.</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/25DC9922-72FF-4100-9AE8-24D40BF3C62D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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