Firewire 3.2kbps soon- too late, too sorry?

[udaman]

http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/12/15/firewire.s3200/

As a joint Sony/Apple product, never got off it's feat really for lack of support and adoption by 3rd party storage solutions. Sony castrated it, along with PC laptops, by only using powerless 4 pin version, whereas the far more useful powered 6pin only shipped with Apple systems.

Now that USB3.0 will be final spec ratified sometime in 2008, FW 3.2K is a non-issue, IMO even if shipping product makes it to the market 1/2 year earilier than USB3.0. It is a superior I/O connection scheme, but no one is using it . Anyone with FW800 on a Mac will tell you they love it, much better than FW400, would drool to have 3.2KB version.

 

[Chewy509]

Firewire still has it's place especially with Camcorders and external HDDs. USB simply can not (by specification) offer true sustained transfer rates, unlike Firewire.

It's a pity most common desktop users never see the true benefit of Firewire over USB.

 

[Platform]

I bring this subject up from time to time, and people frequently do not believe it when I tell them, but, there was actually a "Firewire" around for a few years before the Firewire that Apple allegedly invented and submitted as IEEE-1488. This mysterious hardware and cabling looks and works just like Firewire, but it can also do things that Firewire can't do. This mysterious data interconnect is called IEEE-1355.


http://www.utmc.com/ProductPages/RH_spacewire.cfm

http://spacewire.esa.int/

http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1355/index.html