On Jul 11, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Jerry Freeman wrote: > as i understand it, third party device manufacturers are tired of > paying an alleged 28? per port license fee to apple. usb with higher > speed than usb2 is being developed with rumored implementation in > 2008. ie devices that are currently firewire, may not be in the > future, say your epson printer. epson could save millions in license > fees. best...jf
I think the historical reason for the paucity of Firewire support is that Intel was the driving force behind USB and their support chipsets did not include Firewire. The vast majority of Intel-based computers have motherboards with the standard Intel chipsets and are even copies of the standard Intel reference board designs. In the Intel-clone land, however, quite a few of the boards supporting AMD chips have Firewire. Even the cheap little EPIA micro- ATX boards I use for my MythTV frontends have Firewire. (They use a C3 CPU -- ever heard of that one?) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2452 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20070711/a327df3a/attachment.bin
