firewire 2

satanicpoptart

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ive been reading some articles about firewire 2, seems its back compadible with firewire 1 with a small male/female attachement. the big news is that its a minimal of 800 mbps..... say goodbye to usb 2.0...
 
Yeah. USB is great for things like keyboards and mice and things that don't need high throughput, but FireWire 2 will totally beat the **** out of USB 2.

I believe it's called "Gigawire", since Apple patented that name recently. I wonder when it's set to be standard on Macs though. I hope, come MWNY this year, Apple begins to put it standard on all Macs across the line since it's backward compatible. That would rock. :)
 
It would be sad to me because I have just bought a PowerBook with Firewire 1.
 
I've been waiting on that for a while now (a little after I first heard of USB 2.0) and have actually been holding off an a Firewire card or USB 2.0 card for both my PCs or my Mac because I want one card to have USB 2.0 and Firewire 2 (thought it was going to be named "b"?).

Tired of waiting! Give it to me already dangit! :D

Yeah - I'm a speed freak! ;)
 
Yeah, it's annoying tho' because I just got my LCD iMac and it won't have FireWire 2 no matter what... grrr...

Well, then again the only FireWire device I have is my iPod, since I don't use my external CD-R anymore, so it doesn't really matter :p
 
I honestly can't think of anything as to why I really need Firewire2 that the current version does not already give me...

Just the fact of having it there... you know? ;)

Especially when I'm specifically getting add-on cards I might as well get the faster one - just in case.

Now for USB 2.0 - that's a totally different subject, USB 1.1 is too painful! LOL :D
 
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