From: "Duane" <macastronomer@mac.com>

Date: November 28, 2007 10:55:22 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: New Flea2 models

I would bet CameraLink would win among those, but I'm sure Apple would be happy to 

throw a third generation FireWire out there (although manufacturers seem to want lower 

power) and you can always expect Microsoft to come in at the 11th hour with something 

very late, subpar and with their full weight forcing it on the industry—say, something like 

USB 3... (not likely backwards compatible).

Personally, I really like being able to plug in a portable firewire drive and not have to power 

it with a separate cable/plug. Firewire rocks.

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:

Hi Perry;

The other thing to remember is that USB is Intel's baby and they  

don't want anything used except USB.

Apple leaned heavily (and still does) for board design on Intel for  

the first generation of Lap Tops and there was no FireWire 800  

because Intel doesn't support FW800 at all.

It wasn't until the second generation MacPro Laptops that Apple had  

added FW800 support back in.

For High speed cameras, hard drives and other devices, the current  

push is for custom PCI -E boards, CameraLink or GigE. USB2 isn't even  

in the running for that.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle

On 28-Nov-07, at 5:57 PM, Perry Holcomb wrote:

Speaking as a Mac user since 1988 (Sys. 6.x or

something like that), I would pose that more PCs have

USB capability than Firewire, or there wouldn't be as

many Firewire boards for PCs on the market.

Just an assumption...

Perry