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Reader: MDD Power Macs already have USB 2.0?

updated 01:35 pm EDT, Tue April 15, 2003

MacNN reader Hyok Ki Chung writes: "While browsing a Korean Mac magazine site, I found this interesting article. It's about the USB 2.0 controller chipset on MDD Power Mac 1.25GHz and 1.4GHz motherboards. According to this article, the controller is made by NEC, model number �PD720101. This is the [on NEC's site in English]. It looks like we already have USB 2.0 built-in Power Macs. I guess it�s just matter of time. Hopefully, Apple will add the driver to an updater soon."

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04/15, 01:51pm | report spam | close Reply |
USB 2.0

I wonder if that is the new 1.25's or the old ones as well?

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links are broken!

Intentional or not.

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04/15, 01:55pm | report spam | close Reply |
I wonder too

I wonder if any of it is true. Aren't there USB 2.0 PCI cards available for Mac (with drivers) why would it take so long to get a driver made? It can't be that different from the implementations already done.

It would be a nice surprise for it to be true though...

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04/15, 01:59pm | report spam | close Reply |
link

http://www.necel.com/english/system/usb/product/upd720101.html

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Bling!

I think Ki sent this to Mike over at xlr8...

Check your chips. Doubtful its on last generation. But it would be nice treat.

Oh, and Get Keyspan Hubs! They aren't prone to Kernel Panics! :P

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04/15, 02:05pm | report spam | close Reply |
Just checked my mp142

it is that part no., also googled it and it IS a USB 2.0 chip, it also could not be wired to the system board in a way that would allow it to act as a usb1.1 only. Looks like a political decision by appl to me.

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04/15, 02:23pm | report spam | close Reply |
interresting

looks like they are saving usb 2.0 for the 970 mchines...

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PowerBook 17"

FYI: The Apple System Profiler lists the USB controller in my PB 17" as "USB2.0 Hub Controller".

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USB 2 = USB 1.1

Warning ! USB 1.1 has been renamed USB 2 for a few months...

USB 2 normal speed = USB 1.1

USB 2 High Speed = USB 2

So that's not the real USB 2 !!!

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Knowing Apple...

...these days they will offer the driver only if you buy a .Mac subscription or pay for a system upgrade...

Bitter - U bet... Writing on a PC now...

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ASP

I'm looking in my ASP and I can't see where it says anything about what type of USB controller there is... where are you seeing this?

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Funny...

that a good peercentage of the mac fanboyz claimed that X already supports USB 2.0. Anyway, I suspect the issue is that they could NOT buy a 1.1 only USB controller chip. Without the right connector and the correct number of wires going to the controller, I doubt these are going to be very useful.

To me this is all about Jubs ego; he doesn't like it so he ain't going to put it on Macs until 2-3 years after the rest of the world has it.

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USB2 for Mac

You can get USB2 for Macs (desktops at least):

http://www.usb-ware.com/orangeusb-usb-2-pci-board.htm

Now, is there anything you can actually use it with?!

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Re: Knowing Apple

"...these days they will offer the driver only if you buy a .Mac subscription or pay for a system upgrade...

Bitter - U bet... Writing on a PC now... "

Let's see, the stuff we have gotten for .Mac thus far has been all shareware that you would normally pay for. 2 games: $20, DropStuff: $30, Virex: $50, .Mac: Priceless (well really $50 or $100, depending when you purchased.) So, $100 worth of software for $100 worth of web applications. Not too bad...

And lets try to understand this logic, you don't want to spend $130 on OS X 10.2 but will spend $500 to $2000 on a new PC? And like Microsoft is going to say, "Upgrade to Win XP 2 for free!!!" Yeah, right. Thank god people like you don't use macs. With that type of logic, who needs ya? Also, are you that lame that you still visit this site, even though you no longer use a mac? Must be regretting that decision...

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Re: Knowing Apple

"...these days they will offer the driver only if you buy a .Mac subscription or pay for a system upgrade...

Bitter - U bet... Writing on a PC now... "

And yet still surfing the mac sites ... miss it don't cha?

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yeah right

Power Macs have USB 2.0 and it hasn't been discovered by anyone all this time until NOW? Bull!

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haha

whatever, they crippled it on purpose, as the should have. firewire needed another year in the spotlight as far as apple was concerned. usb 2.0 sucks compared to firewire.

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cool

think how fast you'll be able to push a mouse around the screen with USB 2!

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Orange Micro's Drivers

Has anyone tried using orange micro's drivers on their MDD G4.
Might work, if they use the same NEC controller.

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the link is brooken

link to the controller has already been taken down...

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Reader: MDD Power Macs already have USB 2.0?

updated 01:35 pm EDT, Tue April 15, 2003

USB 2.0

links are broken!

I wonder too

link

Bling!

Just checked my mp142

interresting

PowerBook 17"

USB 2 = USB 1.1

Knowing Apple...

ASP

Funny...

USB2 for Mac

Re: Knowing Apple

Re: Knowing Apple

yeah right

haha

cool

Orange Micro's Drivers

the link is brooken

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