my new portable computer has a Firewire port built in and the computer that i had to rebuild this summer because of the previous motherboard dying has two builtin Firewire ports. that is in addition to its six USB2 ports. the portable has two USB2 ports too.
Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 2:46 AM Subject: Re: OT- Nikon announces new scanners > 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.
