> > That's about what I thought. I suspect USB2 will be available on more > computers than Firewire. Going to USB2 will enable the scanner to work > on more computers.
Not many more. Nowadays many of the chipsets used on motherboards offer native FireWire support as well as USB 2. I'd expect all but the cheapest systems to have FireWire, and I doubt if too many people would want to connect a 4000dpi slide scanner to a low-end system. FireWire does offer some advantages over USB, so I don't see it going away. (For one thing, much of the high-end consumer digital video equipment uses FireWire; I've even got an I-link connector on the back of my television, and that's just Sony's variation on IEEE1394/FireWire)
