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Technology Stocks : Disk Drive Sector Discussion Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mark Madden who wrote (8797)	10/2/2000 9:07:14 PM
From: JoAnne Sorlie	Respond to of 9256

I've been using firewire with my Mac G4 for a video camera and a cd burner. I've noticed that all of my teenage daughter's friends are asking her to burn their music cds for them since our machine does definitely work faster. I've watched ultra-thin laptop users using external usb drives to hold all the stuff they don't need to carry with them on the road, and have no doubt that most of them would be thrilled to switch over to firewire--it is so much faster than usb, but still has the hot-plug capability. The mp3 collecting craze really took off this summer among teenagers in the midwest. I notice the throughput on my cable modem slowing markedly weekday afternoons within minutes of the school bus passing by. Amusingly to me, they aren't at all bothered by the inferior quality of the sound they get, much as I and my peers were not bothered by the small scratches our vinyl lp's inevitably picked up in the 70's. Bottom line: no doubt, a lot of people will be needing to upgrade disc storage before they need new processors, so demand for external hard drives should be healthy. But right now, only Sony and Apple are including ieee1394 as standard equipment, I think.