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iPad Pro innards pave the way for USB 3.0 transfer speeds

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Apple’s iPad Pro doesn’t currently bring any major improvements in transfer speeds over previous iPads, but that could change with the arrival of new adapters.</p><p>
A teardown of the iPad Pro (https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad+Pro+Teardown/52599) by iFixit revealed that Apple’s jumbo tablet (http://www.macworld.com/article/3004823/ipad/5-things-i-noticed-in-my-first-hours-with-the-ipad-pro.html) includes a 4-port USB 3.0 Host Controller. In theory, this should allow for USB 3.0 transfer speeds through the iPad Pro’s Lightning port.</p><p>
But as MacRumors reports (http://www.macrumors.com/2015/11/12/ipad-pro-lightning-port-usb-3-0-speeds/), using a standard Lightning cable only transfers data in the 25 MBps to 35 MBps range. USB 3.0 allows for speeds beyond 60 MBps, up to a theoretical maximum of 640 MBps (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2360306/usb-3-0-speed-real-and-imagined.html).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3004647/ipad/ipad-pro-innards-pave-the-way-for-usb-30-transfer-speeds.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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