firewire is pretty much a legacy issue. there is no further consumer world developement going on supporting FW400/800. FW800 never really caught on either. FW800 is being used in military aspects. they are not using the same poorly designed interconnects that consumer FW used (yes the military is quite smart at times). FW had lots of good distinct points but when you started to really develop using it sometimes was less friendly then the distortion field led to believe
thunderbolt is the next interconnect. it has its own bag of limitations to go with its potentially substantially higher speed. there are but a few consumer products out there that support it and they at this point are mac-centric and big $$$ until 2012. thats a standby to standby situation. it biggest advantage is that it is an intel based product.
Nov 26, 2011 at 02:55 PM
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