RE: [OT] USB2 on Laptops?

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Accepted and I will stand corrected, but then why would I want to pay
the premium for Firewire when I can get the same performance from a much
cheaper and more easily available product?

K.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Malcolm-Smith [mailto:rich@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 28 February 2002 00:26
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] USB2 on Laptops?
>
> 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.
>
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