Holy shit! Who thought this would even be comprehensible by users, let alone was a good idea: I've never heard of any of those, and I work in tech, so this was just a colossally bad naming scheme.
Holy shit! Who thought this would even be comprehensible by users, let alone was a good idea:
With USB 3.1 the bandwidth doubled to 10 Gbit/s. But USB-IF called it "USB 3.1 Gen 2" with the "old" USB 3.0 to be refereed to as "USB 3.1 Gen1". They did it again in 2017 with what people would have liked to be "USB 3.2". We got 20 Gbit/s except it was to be called "USB 3.2 Gen 2x2". Accordingly "USB 3.1 Gen 2" became "USB 3.2 Gen 2x1" and "USB 3.1 Gen 1" was renamed "USB 3.2 Gen 1x1".
I've never heard of any of those, and I work in tech, so this was just a colossally bad naming scheme.
The naming scheme for WiFi is on the verge of being just as incomprehensible, with the renaming of the various 802.11 standards as a more consumer palatable WiFi <integer> which sets up a symlink...
The naming scheme for WiFi is on the verge of being just as incomprehensible, with the renaming of the various 802.11 standards as a more consumer palatable WiFi <integer> which sets up a symlink for all of us to remember; and of course, they're now recomplicating it by introducing WiFi 6e/WiFi 6 wave 2, previously known as 6GHz 802.11ax.
Wait really? I just started looking into upgrading again and found out about Wifi 6. How hard is it to just increment a number? Damnit this is why we can't have good things. I blame marketing. Too...
Wait really? I just started looking into upgrading again and found out about Wifi 6. How hard is it to just increment a number?
Damnit this is why we can't have good things.
I blame marketing. Too many companies want their number to go up without making genuine improvements.
I've run into some of this spec mayhem with laptop docks, and it ain't pretty. Especially the "how many lanes of video at what resolution do I actually have available?" question. For a while, Dell...
I've run into some of this spec mayhem with laptop docks, and it ain't pretty. Especially the "how many lanes of video at what resolution do I actually have available?" question. For a while, Dell drivers were utterly unreliable for Thunderbolt, too.
The USB world has reached a complexity level which exceeds the amount of time I can dedicate to understanding it. While I was researching USB hubs, I kept on running into their Thunderbolt-3 counterparts which seemed not only superior in capabilities but also far simpler.
Holy shit! Who thought this would even be comprehensible by users, let alone was a good idea:
I've never heard of any of those, and I work in tech, so this was just a colossally bad naming scheme.
The naming scheme for WiFi is on the verge of being just as incomprehensible, with the renaming of the various 802.11 standards as a more consumer palatable
WiFi <integer>which sets up a symlink for all of us to remember; and of course, they're now recomplicating it by introducingWiFi 6e/WiFi 6 wave 2, previously known as 6GHz 802.11ax.Wait really? I just started looking into upgrading again and found out about Wifi 6. How hard is it to just increment a number?
Damnit this is why we can't have good things.
I blame marketing. Too many companies want their number to go up without making genuine improvements.
I've run into some of this spec mayhem with laptop docks, and it ain't pretty. Especially the "how many lanes of video at what resolution do I actually have available?" question. For a while, Dell drivers were utterly unreliable for Thunderbolt, too.
Unless of course you buy an M1 Mac Mini or MacBook Air, which also supports Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4, and is marketed as
Thunderbolt / USB 4.From the article: