[Audio Empire]

I expect that this format will kill-off Firewire, but I haven't seen any yet.
Has anyone?

[Mr.T]

"Audio Empire" wrote in message
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I expect that this format will kill-off Firewire, but I haven't seen any
yet.
Has anyone?

I doubt there will be a rush for such equipment until a few people actually
have computers with the interface. I bet the first popular usage that will
drive consumer take up, will be for external hard drives rather than audio
interfaces. Even then the only real benefit over eSata is hot swapping. But
eSata isn't very common, and I expect USB3 will be more popular.

MrT.

[Kevin McMurtrie[_3_]]

In article ,
Audio Empire wrote:

I expect that this format will kill-off Firewire, but I haven't seen any yet.
Has anyone?

I wouldn't want to be cutting-edge on this one. The USB 3 design is
cumbersome so it's possible that another technology will be the
successor to current interconnects before USB 3 catches on. Microsoft,
Apple, and Intel seem to be dragging their feet. Intel is working on
Light Peak even though they're a USB technology contributor.
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[Audio Empire]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:00:44 -0700, Kevin McMurtrie wrote
(in article ):

In article ,
Audio Empire wrote:

I expect that this format will kill-off Firewire, but I haven't seen any
yet.
Has anyone?

I wouldn't want to be cutting-edge on this one. The USB 3 design is
cumbersome so it's possible that another technology will be the
successor to current interconnects before USB 3 catches on. Microsoft,
Apple, and Intel seem to be dragging their feet. Intel is working on
Light Peak even though they're a USB technology contributor.


That seems reasonable. There has been talk about USB3 for several years now,
with little movement from anybody (although, I understand that several MB
manufacturers are including the hardware on some boards, I don't believe that
Win 7 actually supports the standard yet (I could be wrong here as I don't
"do" Windows. But seems to me that I read somewhere that USB3 support is not
part of the OS).

[Geoff]

Kevin McMurtrie wrote:
In article ,
Audio Empire wrote:

I expect that this format will kill-off Firewire, but I haven't seen
any yet. Has anyone?

I wouldn't want to be cutting-edge on this one. The USB 3 design is
cumbersome so it's possible that another technology will be the
successor to current interconnects before USB 3 catches on.
Microsoft, Apple, and Intel seem to be dragging their feet. Intel is
working on Light Peak even though they're a USB technology
contributor.

Naa, I'll wait for USB5

geoff

[Audio Empire]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:43:43 -0700, geoff wrote
(in article ) :

Kevin McMurtrie wrote:
In article ,
Audio Empire wrote:

I expect that this format will kill-off Firewire, but I haven't seen
any yet. Has anyone?

I wouldn't want to be cutting-edge on this one. The USB 3 design is
cumbersome so it's possible that another technology will be the
successor to current interconnects before USB 3 catches on.
Microsoft, Apple, and Intel seem to be dragging their feet. Intel is
working on Light Peak even though they're a USB technology
contributor.

Naa, I'll wait for USB5

geoff



Since USB3 has been "on the horizon" for what seems like forever, you've a
long wait for USB5!

8^)