James wrote:
Urbane Tiger wrote:
$179 is a good price for a 500GB Western Digital external hard disk, and
being available at the post office means it is
widely available (unlike lots of cheap stuff, just ask anyone outside of
metro areas). One would prefer it come with
the far superior Firewire interface, but it comes with the vastly
inferior USB interface. I would guess fewer than 10%
of new desktop systems have a Firewire (IEEE1394) socket whereas 99.5%
have several USB sockets. This was illustration
of the "best" is not necessarily the winner. It was also a way of
letting folks know that the Aussie post office is a
place where bargains are often to be had.
Define "best". USB has the advantage that it can be used with so many
other devices. I don't recall ever seeing a firewire mouse, printer or
keyboard.
Did anyone think about adding the Firewire card to the desktop?
That is where desktop makers get their's. If the desktop makers
to not want to pay the high price from the Firewire card makers,
then there is no Firewire on the desktop. Firewire still may be
owned my the original makers and do not want to sell the
rights to make it unless you pay their high prices.
You can get a Firewire and USB combo card really cheap these days.
I have Firewire in my HP laptop, but not in an IBM server,
or a Compaq (pre merger) desktop.
Most of the external devices I have only use USB, since that
is the most popular. If there was a push to make more than
50% of external devices (other than digital video devices) to
have a Firewire port, then the computer makers will take notice
and have a Firewore port on every computer they make.
that is my opinion, what is yours?
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