On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:25:50PM -0800, Kevin Stevens wrote: : : On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Jeremy Derr wrote: : > : > A recent : > visit to Fry's proved this.... of all their decent USB 2 devices, every : > one of them had FireWire too. : : That's simply not true. The digital camera market is very fragmented : between USB 2 and Firewire, and they typically only have one of the two.
I don't know of any digital cameras sporting USB 2 that are worth it. : As pixel sizes become larger it becomes even more of an issue. Pixels get bigger? :-) : Card : readers of various types are also quickly converting to USB 2. Ditto : handheld uplink devices. If you're talking about *computers*, I agree - : that's exactly what I'm complaining about. : : Put another way, the difference between USB 1 and USB 2 (11vs400Mb) is a : enormous benefit to have. The improvement between Firewire and F2 (400 vs : 800Mb) is much less so - you usually can't dump 50MB/sec to disk anyway, : never mind 100MB/sec. On the contrary, the improvement between Firewire 400 and Firewire 800 is signficant precisely because data size increases as the resolution of digital cameras improves and as JPEG quality is reduced (or not used at all and the raw data is transferred). -- Eugene Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
