On 09/01/03 16:59, "Luca Rescigno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip!] > Actually, I was thinking the other day... why does anyone even use USB? > Why can't all Macs just have three or four FireWire ports and use > FireWire mice and keyboards and FireWire digital cameras and the like? > Standardizing on FireWire would be cool. Of course, I'm sure there's > some sort of issue preventing that from happening, otherwise it might > have already happened.
I guess the biggest issue is that FW is not standard on most Wintel. So, all those mice, keyboards and hard drives that come out have to work both on Wintel and Mac, so the lowest common denominator is USB. I don't remember seeing any mouse or keyboard with FW. Likewise, there aren't a lot of peripheral makers that offer their products only for the Macintosh... -Laurent. -- =========================================================================== Laurent Daudelin Developer, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC, USA ************************* Usual disclaimers apply ************************* guru meditation n.: Amiga equivalent of `panic' in Unix (sometimes just called a `guru' or `guru event'). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. Sometimes a guru event must be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
