Just another way for Apple to separate the Power Mac from the iMac. Also Firewire 800 isn't that common yet so why throw it into a consumer machine.smwatson said:
While FireWire blows USB out of the water in streaming speed, USB destoys it in price. It is very costly to put FireWire into computers. It is also very costly to put it into harddrives, cameras, etc. Moeny makes the world go 'round.smwatson said:
Theoretically speaking, USB 2.0 is about 40 times faster than USB 1.1. It's probably not that extreme in real world usage, but you get the point.smwatson said:
I think you are smoking too much crack. Every year it is becoming more and more popular. Many PCs are even being manufactured stock with 1394. I doubt Apple, of all companies, will give up on it any time soon. The iPod think is just to save space. It was FW or USB. The choise is easy. USB allows for more compitibility.carpe diem said:
carpe diem said:
Actually, it is 25 cents per end user system. And I'm pretty sure Apple pays that 25 cents too. Anyone purchasing the licensing for 1394, may use the FireWire name as long as they sign a trademark agreement.BGil said:
Apple lead the developement of 1394, but there were many companies involved: Apple, Sony, Canon, ST Microelectronics, Matsushita, National Semiconductor, RF Microdevices, and a bunch more. All these companes own patents that are used in 1394. They only charged other companies to use the technology. Apple wanted to raise the fee from $.25 per system to $1 per port. The other companies disagreed and said if Apple was going to get $1 per port, so were they. Basically, Apple was going to have to pay $15 per port. To solve the dispute, together they formed the 1394 Licensing Authority. This Authority charges 25 cents per system to everyone and distrubutes the profits amoung the patent holders.BGil said:
yescarpe diem said:
I dont' think so
No. It would be very slow and laggy. USB is much better at sending small bursts.
Yes.
To simplify it, USB sends information in small, but fast bursts of data. Sort of like a machine gun firing bullets. The bursts are very quick. Firewire streams its data. It takes some time to get up to speed. Much like a car. You have to go slow and build up some speed. Not enough data is transmitted when using a mouse or keyboard. The data transfer would end before the speed started to increace. It would be like driving a car stuck in 1st gear. A mouse for instance, would lag behind the user's movement. Another example is if you had to transfer 100s or 1000s of small 1k files. USB would be much faster than Firewire.epepper9 said:
