Any Thinkpad user here using their Firewire port? What would you use it for? I read that we can make ad-hoc connection between two computers.
Any Thinkpad user here using their Firewire port? What would you use it for? I read that we can make ad-hoc connection between two computers.
Though FireWire wiped the floor with USB 1.1, FireWire 800 outperformed USB 2.0 (especially in S3200 mode), and there were even plans to use fiber to run at speeds USB wouldn’t match until USB 3.2 Gen2. Sadly, the technology was ultimately doomed due to the higher costs of implementation. At first, a FireWire controller was more expensive than a USB controller, though prices would eventually drop. That’s to say nothing of Apple, Sony, and Panasonic initially wanting a $0.25 royalty per port, which would quickly add up for manufacturers.
Steve Jobs officially declared FireWire dead in 2008. Still, development continued into 2013, and all the major operating systems still support FireWire peripherals to this day — even Apple Silicon Macs, via a Thunderbolt adapter. (However, Microsoft removed FireWire networking starting in Windows vista.)