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Early USB Type-C devices won't offer significant speed boosts over USB 3.0
There was excitement when the USB Implementers Forum announced the specs for the new USB Type-C standard, featuring a reversible plug and replacing all its predecessors at a stroke. It offered to replace not just the USB, but to carry enough power to be the single cable for devices and 4K video for external displays.
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Type C was never about speed. It was about convenience and flexibility.
Also interesting. I was looking at the new mac book and having to have an adaptor to use any combination of display output, usb and charging is kind of annoying but then i realised i rarely have a usb in my computer any more. All i'd need the adaptor for is charging and having a second screen simultaneously which i guess wouldn't be to bad seeing as its stationary.
I'm excited about it because I hate microUSB and it will be able to charge 10X faster.
Wouldn't 10x faster charging be damaging on the device end? I was under the impression that most cell phone/tablet batteries have low c-ratings that would mean anything much over 2mA could cause damage, even venting.
I guess in the future they will start putting in batteries with higher c-ratings, but that would be a tradeoff with mAh.
2mA?? I'm guessing you mean 2A, but I guess as capacity increases in batteries, the charge current increases also - if we get to using 4Ah batteries in phones at 1C that is 4A - although that's 3.7V, but it shows that there is advantage in being able to deliver more than 2A.
I think the type C update just allows it to be more versatile.
It's up to 10x but they could limit it, but this gives manufacturers a great opportunity to pursue new type software batteries which would not have been viable previously.