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LaCie to be first to market with FireWire 2

updated 09:40 am EDT, Fri October 11, 2002

 
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LaCie said its plans to be the first to market with FireWire2/1394b products, offering data-transfer speeds of 800Mbps, after it purchased the first shipment of FireWire 2 (1394b) bridges from manufacturer Oxford Semiconductor, according to Macworld UK. The company said it plans to release new products integrating the technology before anyone else and is "discussing plans to introduce mass-storage products encased in its new-look D2 enclosures with capacities in excess of 300GB."


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    free .mac with firewire 2

    its FREE for life

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    hey, that's great....

    ...now give me something to connect it to.

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    you could connect them...

    ...uh, to each other? that's it, buy two of 'em! ;-)

    oh yeah, and to comply with the rules of these forums...

    .Mac SUX!!!
    no it doesn't, .Mac RULEZ!!!
    no it doesn't, and YOU SUX!!!
    etc., etc., etc.

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    re: forum rules

    ^ haha!

    you forgot the obligatory anit- french sentiments.

    french suck ha!

    also, why would I want FW2 if my mac doesnt support it?
    altho a 300gig drive would look nice next to my 48x burner.

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    It would look better next to a 52x burner. 48x is out, dude.

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    you got to know that

    this means that firewire2 will be here really soon. id be quite suprised if apple let its baby be born to the pc users before macs...

    cant wait to see comparisons with usb2. goodnight

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    Apple sauce

    Listen, and listen good.. Apple will be slow to give us FW2 hardware.. we all know it, so don't get pissy... Apple's promos end on the 31st of December.. they'll roll out some revamped g4 machines that will "hold us over" until G5's come out in late 2003...

    Look at the pattern.. we've all been speculating about g5's, FW2, etc for 2 years.. and Apple, and Motorola have been treading water performance wise..

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    disappointment awaits...

    FW2 won't offer 99.8% of Mac users anything, period. Be prepared for some BareFeats articles showing that it does absolutely nothing to speed up data transfers for anyone but those using FireWire RAID solutions (all 3 of them) or FireWire networks (all 0 of them).

    The reason is obvious - FW1 can't be saturated by anything other than a RAID device. It was a great design from the start. USB is just now (almost) getting there, 5 years later. FW2 may be valuable somewhere down the road, but for now it's only good for bragging rights and hype (which count for a lot, unfortunately).

    I don't think we'll ever see G5s, at least not from MOTO. There have been too many leaks saying that it's headed for embedded use only. Apple has been planning on the desktop Power4 for quite some time - they've had 'em running for 9 months or more. We'll get more G4 disappointment for awhile - at least until MW Boston, and even then it will probably not ship until this time next year. Deal with it.

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