[P1] iBook questions

[Larry Kollar]

>> IEEE (firewire) is almost 100% nessacary these days....cameras, 
>> printers ,
>> scanners, ect....

For those of us who have been using Macs for a long time, I see 
Firewire as
a replacement for the SCSI bus & USB replacing ADB. Thus, Firewire is 
what
you use for high-bandwidth peripherals (video, outboard disks, 
scanners) --
although you can do all of that with USB, it's slower. Granted, I 
haven't seen
any Firewire scanners, but I wish I did....

As for printers, the only reason you'd need a Firewire connection is if 
you
were using a RIP (rasterizer) on the Mac -- think of it as the reverse 
of a
scanner. Even PostScript doesn't require that much bandwidth, especially
if you use binary mode.

I haven't had the need to use the Firewire port on my iBook yet, 
although
since my wife does video editing, we use it on her G4 quite a bit. :-)

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