> USB 3.1 will continue to lag Intel’s high-speed standard (Thunderbolt), but as bandwidth rises this gap becomes increasingly academic.<p>This may be true of bandwidth, but to the best of my knowledge Thunderbolt is vastly superior in terms of latency. I've heard Thunderbolt likened to pluggable PCI-Express, which is to say that it's both low latency and high bandwidth. USB may be closing the bandwidth gap, but without reworking the way USB is integrated into most motherboards it's going to continue to have latency that isn't well suited to certain tasks.<p>This isn't an issue if devices continue to ship with Thunderbolt in addition to USB-c, but the new MacBook comes with a single USB-c connector and nothing else.