If you came with the Apple launch last week observed you might a new term: USB C.
Google also plan to use USB Type C Chromebook, for they also went veil of a new USB Type-C based portable last week: Chromebook Pixel 2.
It’s been a while since the new USB 3.1 standard and the new Type-C plug was undeveloped, but with Apple and Google launches it initiated which might facilitate our cable everyday.
Better usability
said that it needed at least three attempts to establish a USB plug: Correct way, the wrong way and ultimately the right way again.
It only fits one way, but even if you put it right way, it can be tricky to get in place.
Thus turns one it, only to conclude that it either does not fit then, so turning it the right way again and then pry it in place.
This is common to a wide range of data connectors. Who has not struggled to establish an HDMI cable or a DVI cable?
Apple Lightning connector is easier, and snaps whichever way you push it in.
It sits well and it always works. One could almost believe that Lightning connector was the model when USB Type-C was developed for the very similar.
USB Implementers Forum
Behind the USB standard is an amalgamation of a number of companies in his time established standard and further develop it and promote its excellence.
When a new contact was designed, was improved usability, size and performance the most important goals.
What they’ve come up with is thus USB Type-C, which then becomes part of the new, faster USB 3.1 standard.
Since there now comes a USB Type-C, you may think that there is a Type-A and Type-B, and it is absolutely correct.
USB, as we know it, is that a cable has two different plugs at each end. A Type-A in one end and a type-B on the other end.
Type-A is then the type plug that sits on your PC or USB charger yours. Type B is the end that goes into the external hard disk, mobile phone, camera, etc.
But the Type B, there are several different versions of.
We have the original Type drop B, now mostly only found on printers (to the extent printers used for USB, now that they all are wireless).
Then we have the Type B Mini, which is often found on various cameras, and Type B Micro, which is used on all mobiles and tablets, apart from Apple, which also has its Lightning.
There is also a special Micro-B USB 3.0, as you might seen on an external USB 3.0 hard drive.
In addition to the principle of type-A and -B connector and all the different types of contacts, you’ve probably noticed that USB 3.0 connectors and – Joints are highlighted in blue.
New simplification
When USB arrived late 1990s should simplify the connection between PC and peripherals.
About you remember a serial and parallel ports, you remember certainly also how much easier everything was with USB.
What happens with USB 3.1 standard is a new simplification through Type-C plug.
USB Type-C shall namely could replace all the aforementioned type-A and -B contacts.
It will namely be possible to use USB Type-C in both ends of the cable and the plug can be turned. It suits both ways in contact, just like Apple Lightning connector.
Physically is USB Type-C about as big as a Micro-USB connector, 8.4 x 2.6 mm, for to be exact. That means it is slightly larger than a Lightning connector, which is 7.7 x 1.7 mm.
More speed and more power
USB 3.1 is also blown much faster than USB 3.0 – twice as fast, indeed!
This is admittedly theoretical speeds, but USB 3.0 maximum transfer 5 Gbps.
USB 3.1 doubles this to 10 Gbps, which is 4 Gbps faster than the fastest SATA port in your PC, and as fast as the original Thunderbolt standard.
While USB 3.0 with its 5 Gbps called USB SuperSpeed called USB 3.1 with its 10 Gbps USB SuperSpeed +.
MSI, which recently launched several motherboards with USB 3.1 (they have chosen the Type A and not the Type C, presumably to make it easier to connect to older USB devices), illustrates rate differences as follows:
A Blu-ray movie takes 20 minutes to transfer over USB 2.0, two minutes on USB 3.0 and 58 seconds on USB 3.1.
Last but not least get USB 3.1 three so-called power profiles: 2A at 5V, 5A at 12V or 5A at 60V, which means consumption respectively 10 watts, 60 watts and 100 watts.
In this way, manufacturers of peripherals create products that can draw power from the USB port, for example a PC without having to have a separate power supply.
In addition, the port used for charging laptops, such as new Apple Macbook and Google Chromebook Pixel 2.
It also means that mobile phones will be able to charge faster than today.
One can also well imagine that the large transmission capacity can replace HDMI and DisplayPort, since it has enough capacity to 4K, and have enough current carrying capacity to drive PC screen as well.
3.1 standard is designed for both today and tomorrow products, so no one knows quite what standard can enable the product page yet.
What appears to be certain is that USB Type-C is something you’re going to become acquainted with. Google more than suggests that USB Type-B micro going to be replaced by USB Tybee C in Android phones and tablets.
Transition Period
Both USB 3.1 standard and the new C-type connector is backwards compatible with all previous USB standards, so that everything can be used interchangeably, only one has the right cable or adapters.
Even though he may pass on USB Type-C already Now, we guess many PCs are going to use the Type A connector for a good while to come. But eventually we will probably be able to go completely over the USB Type-C on all products, thus going over on a single type of cable with USB type-C at each end.
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