On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Olin Lathrop w= rote: > NOPE9 wrote: >> =A0 =A0 =A0 I like Firewire a lot and have always seen it as a superior >> technical solution. =A0Too bad it did not win the perception war. > > I don't think the technical perception of FireWire is bad, mine certainly > isn't. =A0My problem with FireWire is that it's yet another bus my PC wou= ld > have to have, when I haven't encountered any compelling reason for it that > USB 2.0 hasn't handled. =A0FireWire was also too Apple. =A0I realize it's > meanwhile become a IEEE standard, but it was Apple back when it could > possibly have taken over its niche. =A0It was also ahead of its time. =A0= Back > when it first came out, few people needed that kind of speed. =A0By the t= ime > digital video recorders got widespread enough, USB 2.0 was available to f= ill > the need without requiring yet another interface. =A0FireWire is still a > little faster, but not enough for enough people to care, including me. > You'll probably never need to care. Apple dropped FireWire in its consumer laptops announced this week. Ironically, Apple was in a large part responsible for early proliferation of USB by making the original iMac USB-only. Regards, Mark markrages@gmail -- = Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC markrages@midwesttelecine.com -- = http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist