We are slowly but surely moving toward USB 3.0 and HP if now one of the first to ship a laptop with USB 3.0 ports. Specifically, these laptops are certain variations of the Envy 15 quad-core notebook, which will support the faster data transfers of up to 5Gbps.

USB 3.0 adoption has gotten off to a slow start, but HP doesn’t want to miss out. USB 3.0 is already being used for hard drives from LaCie and Western Digital and should be useful for SSDs that get bottlenecked by USB 2.0.

[Electronista]