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    New USB 3.0 Driver - for W510 AND T510 Series

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by jminiman, Feb 22, 2010.

  1. jminiman

    jminiman Notebook Guru

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    jminiman, Feb 22, 2010
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    Lenovo was born in Kenya. Wait wrong conspiracy :)

    The HP 8540p has USB 3.0, so I hope the T510 has it as well.
     
    jaakobi, Feb 22, 2010
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    awesome.   just in time for that pile of USB 3.0 devices i have sitting on my desk. :p
     
    erik, Feb 22, 2010
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    Aw man this is dope... I was JUST taking a gander into various 3.0 ExpressCard options.
     
    eXtreme, Feb 23, 2010
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    Okay, so does that mean a future rev of T510 will have USB3? I'm confused why they'd mark it for T510 when the T510's done have the hardware for it. And if you buy an ExpressCard for 3.0, wouldn't it come with and need its own drivers?
     
    Mutnat, Feb 23, 2010
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    I'm a bit confused as well... so current owners of the T510 don't have de-activated USB 3.0 (that is activated by these drivers?)
     
    eXtreme, Feb 24, 2010
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    AFAIK, Intel dropped usb 3.0 from the current chipsets for the core iX cpus and it won't be back until a later rev, meaning to have USB 3.0 right now, the manufacturer has to add another 3rd party chip from someone else. And from what I've read here and other forums, Lenovo only put that extra chip in the W510, not the Tx10. So this is rather confusing.

    I suppose the other option is that Intel actually left the feature in the chipset but disabled, and this driver somehow activates it; but I think we would have heard talk of this on hardware news sites etc and to the best of my knowledge that hasn't come out.

    So basically I'm not getting my hopes up.
     
    Mutnat, Feb 24, 2010
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