On Nov 3, 2004, at 9:36 PM, Charles Martin wrote:
Well, most of the newer Macs (I think starting with the Mirrored Drive Door G4s) have USB 2.0 onboard -- just not your old machine. I think the rule of thumb is that if your new machine can boot into 9, it does NOT have USB 2.0.Nope, us MDD users are USB 2.0 impaired too. It did not become standard in the Power Mac's until the G5. The 1 GHz iMac was the first desktop to get it, around September 2003.
I always figured the marketing guys considered USB sort of for kids, and Firewire was for grownups, so they resisted putting it in the Pro line until the hue and cry from the unwashed masses reached very loud levels?
Slightly off topic, but I was wandering through a large retail computer emporium the other day and saw all these retail wintel boxes on display and lo and behold they had built in Firewire? Mac's got USB 2.0, Compaq and HP's got Firewire? Maybe the consumer is winning for a change? :-)
Jack Russell
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