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On Trend Computing 2016 - part 6 of 1 2 3 4 5 6

by Mike McNamee Published 01/12/2016

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Cabling and Interconnectivity

Much has changed since 2008. USB has progressed from USB 1 to USB 3 and has now been overtaken by USB Type C. Type C has some compatibility with Thunderbolt interfaces thus giving access to 40Gbps transfer speeds. Wound into all this USB connectivity is the requirement to provide power for charging and operating some devices, it's a bit of a minefield that needs a little bit of caution. Despite costing only £12 the card reader is the most frequently used peripheral on the front of the computer - the power button gets used once per day but cards readers can be in and out like yoyos!


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Overall

Time will tell if we have arrived at a balanced machine design, we will report on the benchmarking as and when it has been commissioned and tested on a real magazine, it will be run parallel to the existing systems for a while.

Finally why not a Mac? Well we use Macs, we have three or four to choose from at Editor Towers but still prefer Windows. Additionally a similar specification Mac priced out at almost twice the cost of a Windows machine.


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