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		sliverstorm on May 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3 The dock has 10/100 Ethernet. In 2013-2014? Why? Can any of the onboard hardware actually handle a 1Gbit firehose? 100Mbit is enough for any streaming you could throw at this thing.

bluedino on May 21, 2014 [–]

It's not that gigabit is too much, it's that 100mb isn't enough. Pulling a file from a server at 10 megabytes per second is dreadful compare to 50 or 60

sliverstorm on May 21, 2014 | [–]

Oh, I agree, I just wonder how many 10GB files anyone would be transferring onto a 64GB Surface.

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