I also still do have a machine on 98SE - but I got myself a little
Sandisk FireWire/CF reader -
512MB are loaded in less than 1min 30s !
So what's all the fuzz about USB1.1, USB2.0, full-speed & hispeed USB...
;-) !?!
I got too confused about all the names. Now when shopping for USB peripherals I just look at the numbers. The fast USB2.0 is 480Mbps. USB1.1 is 12Mbps. I think there's an even slower one (USB1.0?) but I forget the details.
I went shopping for a powered USB hub last weekend. The difference in price between a 1.1 and a 2.0 was NZ$10 (about US$5). I've also been considering a 256Mb USB2.0 flash memory device as they're becoming quite cheap.
One reason why I'm not so fond of USB is that just about every peripheral uses it (which makes computers much easier to set up), but computers usually only have a few ports built-in. My new computer has three ports, four if I count the two ports provided by the keyboard (yes I can add; the keyboard has to be plugged in). I have 5 devices, not counting the USB film scanner which is not supported on the Mac.
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
