Re: [OT] USB2 on Laptops?

[Richard Malcolm-Smith <rich@xxxxxxx>]

Kenneth Watt wrote:

> Wow, more than one Firewire device! :-)
>
> I notice that two from three are video cameras and the third is...well
a
> camera! Can you please point me to the url's that detail Firewire:
>
> Force Feedback gaming peripherals
> Modems
> Wireless AP's
> Printers

High end ones exist.

> Phone Chargers

These only get the power, I suspect its simply a demand thing that stops
them from making them.

> Sound Devices (like the MS Sidewinder)
> Scanners

Exist in the high end of the market.

> ISDN TA's
> Link cables, to enable Laplink to talk to my laptop through Firewire

no cable needed. Simply a 2 ended firewire cable and the software that
comes with winXP and ME to make it an NDIS device that will talk TCP/IP
at 400 megabits :) mmmmm

> Radio receivers
> Graphics Tablets
> Keyboards
> Mice

> And I really didn't think or look that hard to get this list...but I
> think you'll get the point. Firewire was developed for and is used by,
> in the main, video applications and the manufacturers of video
> technology and whilst the format may have support in the video world,
in
> the PC one it has little to none.

Most of the list is input peripherals which dont need the high speed
that eve USB1.1 offers. No point making them firewire.

There are Firewire to ATAPI adaptors that allow external CDRW and IDE
drives.