Rumor: Macbooks to Feature Light Peak
Look out USB 3.0, looks like Light Peak may be coming sooner than you had hoped.
According to Edible Apple, Apple will reportedly be introducing brand new MacBook Pros in April 2011 which will come with a whole lot more than just an upgrade in specs.
Three Guys and a Podcast has said, "The new MacBook Pros will move to solid state storage, up to 512GB, remove the optical drive, and we believe light-peak is being pushed to make it’s first-ever entrance into the market, another Apple exclusive."
In addition, the MacBook Pros are due for a complete redesign borrowing features from the newly released MacBook Air. The most exciting rumor we've been hearing is about the inclusion of Light Peak technology.
Intel and Apple have been reportedly working together to develop the blazing fast Light Peak technology that was buzzed about earlier this year. Boasting of a 10GB/s up and down, light peak might just blow USB 3.0 out of the water. As fast as 10GB/s already sounds, Intel has reported that Light Peak will be able to scale up to 100GB/s within the next ten years. How's that for fast?
If these rumors are true, Light Peak will be hitting the market first with Apple in their new MacBook Pro. As far as what this might do to the pricing, we aren't too excited.

Macbook with Light Peak: $ 5000
that's the whole idea... make more money off these devices.
Of course, I buy neither Intel nor Apple products, so I don't foresee myself using Light Peak anytime soon.
What, exactly, will be Apple's sales pitch here?
"Connect your devices to our computers at blazing-fast speeds, assuming the 5-year old Core 2 processor we stuck you with will be able to handle the throughput." (TM) And what needs this much throughput, external video cards?
light peak is an interconnect that goes between protocols. USB to USB but with Lightpeak in between doesnt matter what connector.
But hey, it's a feature that PCs don't have. Macs are superior. I gotta pay over9000 dollars for that.
Its no surprise apple will make a bottom line standard that everything will either be usb3.0 or have lightpeak in their next line up. its just the way they are.
I do know the makers of Lightpeak will be happy that a manufacture has embraced the technology on all their products.
Its a good thing..
I agree. As is their choice to move to only SSD and lose the optical drive for their next generation. Other laptop manufacturers need to follow suit, because those decisions are definitely the right way to go.
This explains them still using core2 processors right?
Manufactures will go along, it just takes them time. While apple may have these features for about 3-6 months, it gets the factories rolling for SSD makers ect, which then opens doors for folks like HP or Dell to buy the technology for cheaper and turn around and sell it cheaper while apple pays premium for "first adopters" of the components. (also hence the apple 150% markup to cover "first off the factory floor components")
I mean, I like the idea (though not the idea of having to pay the same price for a 100gbps network cable as I would for a cable to connect my keyboard to my computer...) but come on guys, if its sooo good, let it stand on it's own two feet without artificially hampering the competition.