Turns out USB 2 is not all it has been ballyhooed about. I spoke with a tech who really knows his stuff, and he tells me that USB 2's maximum throughput is 150 Mbps, with the rest being absorbed by overhead problems with USB 2 itself. With Firewire a genuine 400 Mbps at a steady rate there is no reason for Apple to include a problematic technology at best, and a slow technology at worse. Of course 1394b is just around the corner with a maximum throughput of 1.6 Gbps. So next time you see a PC Wheenie who asks why Apple hasn't included USB 2, tell them that Apple already has a technology more than twice the speed, and is working on one more than 4 times the speed of USB 2 to come out within a year. And for that matter USB 2 slows to the USB 1 speed when a single USB 1 device is on the bus.
Links for Firewire devices:
http://www.shipitforyou.com/cgi-bin...&HKW=CAT2_3D+SIFY&GEN7=FireWire 1394 Products
http://www.fwdepot.com/
Links for Firewire devices:
http://www.shipitforyou.com/cgi-bin...&HKW=CAT2_3D+SIFY&GEN7=FireWire 1394 Products
http://www.fwdepot.com/