USB 3 Coming to macbook pro

I am planning to buy a macbook pro sometime within the next year and a half.
But I want to hold off until USB 3 or some other important update comes out.
When will USB 3 come out?
Will any other important updates come up to the Macbook pro?
Thanks

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
As others mentioned, we can't really speculate. However, if you are worried about upgrades see this user tip:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1502615&tstart=0
Note, the June 7th, 2009 and prior MacBook Pros all had Express/34 slots.
Only the 17" MacBook Pro as of June 8th, 2009 has Express/34.
The other MacBook Pros have a bootable SD slot, but it can't be adapted to any other technology. Whereas Express/34 can be adapted to USB, SATA, almost any digital camera media, and Firewire. I don't know if Express/34 offers the same speed advantage of USB 3 or less, as it remains to be seen what the final USB 3 standard will be like.
USB 2 is actually slower than Firewire 400, even though USB 2's rated higher in official specs. The best you can hope for from USB 2, assuming only a single USB 2 device on the bus is 150 Mbps. Firewire 800 is already available to the MacBook Pros which is even faster than the USB 2 spec and can easily be adapted to Firewire 400, if all you have are Firewire 400 devices.
Of course the slowest link in any chain will reduce the speed of the device to that slow link if not more, because they are all serial devices.
Get what you need, when you need it.
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