Greetings Robert and list--

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Citkowitz <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, May 12, 2003 4:33 pm
Subject: [PCBUILD] USB vs Firewire

> How do they compare in speed? Range of peripherals using one or
> the other? Other characteristics? Is including a firewire port a
> significant reason to select one of those very few notebooks
> (excluding Apple) over others?
>

USB 1=12 Mbps, USB 2.0=480 Mbps, FireWire=400 Mbps

While newer digital video cameras are beginning to
include USB (presumably 2.0), FireWire has been the
interface of choice for video cameras to use to
upload to a computer for editing and production
purposes.  For example, the Pinnacle Studio DV
product includes the video editing software and
a FireWire interface card and drivers.  As for other
communications needs, clearly USB 2.0 is faster.
A client of mine uses an external USB 2.0 CD-RW
as a backup device for his two dentist offices. He
xcopies his data folder to a CD-RW, then copies it
to the same location on his other office machine,
maintaining the currency of his data at both of his
offices.

HTH,

Paul A. Shippert

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