Right now apple is selling the lowest end iMac for 900 USD. (www.apple.com)
Their low end iMac comes with a g3 CPU running at 400 mHz and is Indigo
colored.
And also comes with 2 USB ports and 2 FireWire ports. Which, IMO, makes it a
good cheap DV Editing computer. Most low-end PCs do not come
I don't know if anybody replied to this, yet (I didn't notice in time about
the iMac comment) but I think Apple's customer service sucks all 'round, no
matter what sized customer they're serving.
And in response to the overpriced comments... I agree with the user who
swapped out the hd and
I'm almost afraid to ask this, given that most of the
people on this list are far more savvy technologically
than I, but here goes:
Can someone please explain (in simple terms) what
Firewire is?
Thank you.
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on 5/10/01 12:40 PM, James Jarvie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone please explain (in simple terms) what
Firewire is?
Hopefully I can make this simple.
Firewire is Apple's name for a connection technology that was designed to
replace SCSI. Firewire is also known as iLink (Sony's
Firewire in a nutshell, is much like a USB port, only it runs a LOT faster.
In some cases it runs faster than a SCSI-device. You don't see it
everywhere yet, because it's new technology (fairly) and not widely accepted
yet. FireWire is also hot-swappable.
You can find FireWire harddrives,
* James Jarvie [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 10 May 2001
| Can someone please explain (in simple terms) what
| Firewire is?
Firewire is Apple's trademark for their implementation of the IEEE 1394
specification. It is a fast (currently up to 400Mbps), inexpensive serial
interconnect bus for
firewire...is a bus like usb...but its faster and doesnt require a host...it
can connect two devices directly without the need a of computer whereas usb
requires a computer..firewire is like the unofficial new digital connectors
for new a/v devices...developed by apple..its also refered to as
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Thanks Bruce, pretty neat! I'm forwarding your
