Only slightly off topic. I saw a firewire/USB comparison on the television show "Call for Help".
The results were interesting. I don't remember the exact details, but they used firewire and USB to transfer about 10 Gbytes of data. They did the test on an apple and on a dell. Here are the results: Transfer time: Loose files from PC via USB 2.0 : 13 mins 26 seconds Transfer time: Loose files from MAC via USB 2.0 : 23 mins 34 seconds Transfer time: Loose files from PC via Firewire 12 mins 34 seconds Transfer time: Loose files from MAC via Firewire 10 mins 17 seconds So the bottom line, in this case, on a PC, firewire is marginally faster, but I wouldn't go out of my way to use it. On a Mac, it's no contest. USB is horribly slower than firewire. It's probably difficult to make direct comparisons between the two machines. And I'd guess there are enough variables that every configuration will have slightly different results. Here's a link to the show notes: <http://www.g4techtv.ca/callforhelp/extremetips/0242A.shtml> See you later, gs <http://georgesphotos.net>
