Yes, I totally agree
Michael

> On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:44 PM, Randy Glenn wrote:
>
> I'm told by people who Use The Gear that Firewire also has a huge
> place in audio editing - that a lot of multitrack recording gear and
> such is really only available in Firewire. Content creation is a HUGE
> market for Apple - indeed, probably their largest market for their Pro
> machines. Firewire / IEEE-1394 is better suited to such applications
> because of attributes like not loading down the host CPU to run the
> bus, allowing DMA transfers, guaranteeing bandwidth, etc. The last
> thing you want when doing pro audio or video work is latency.
>
> Between serious video editing (I'm talking HD here) and serious audio
> editing, I think Firewire isn't going anywhere on the pro models. USB
> 3 may be faster, but if it doesn't address these issues that lead to
> increased latency and jitter, I don't see it catching on. USB, from
> what I can tell, was designed for consumer use. Firewire was not. I
> can see them taking it out of consumer models for cost reasons (which
> some more cost-conscious Pro customers are for SURE not happy about),
> but taking it away from higher-end machines would be a highly
> effective way of exiting the media professional market.
>
> (Personally, I want to see the 3.2 Gbit/sec 1394 spec implemented in
> something that I can buy - my 4 year old PowerBook has FW800, it's
> time for something new!)
>
> -Randy
>



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