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G5 iMac's 400 firewire ports?
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Sep 2, 2004, 07:29 AM
 
I was reading the specs of G5 iMac's specs and learned that it have 2 400 Firewires available? I thought it should be 800 Firewire?

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Sep 2, 2004, 07:47 AM
 
Originally posted by Matt OS X:
I was reading the specs of G5 iMac's specs and learned that it have 2 400 Firewires available? I thought it should be 800 Firewire?
This has been discussed within the text of a few of the threads here. Basically, the conclusion was that 800 is still too much on the cutting edge for a consumer level machine. Not that many things really use 800 yet but 400 is ubiquitous and there doesn't seem to be much compelling vendors to migrate their products from 400 -> 800 (400 is fast enough for most things like DV cams, etc). Besides ... along with Gigabit ethernet 802.11[fill in blank] and graphics cards, Apple's gotta have something to get people to buy the next revision
     
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Sep 2, 2004, 11:20 AM
 
I don't think a consumer machine NEEDS FW800.

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