Peripherals, FireWire vs Macintosh (was Re: HP C3180)

[Alex Satrapa]

On 03/04/2007, at 04:13 , Dan Shoop wrote:
> At 9:53 PM -0600 4/1/07, LuKreme wrote:
>>  My 3G iPod is on firewire, and I used to have a firewire HD case,  
>> but it crapped out.  The keyboard is BT, but Logitech does not  
>> make a BT Trackman.
>
> But other vendors make BT devices too.

Show me an input peripheral made by someone other than Logitech that  
I would be prepared to use 18 hours a day. Of about 50 keyboards I've  
looked at in the past few months, only Logitech ones have been  
satisfactory to my needs. There is, of course, the "elite" keyboard  
(all black, clicky keys) but it's not available anywhere that I can  
get my hands on it to try.

On the FireWire issue: the IEEE standard specifies that all equipment  
should use 33V for power. Most devices on the market are designed fro  
25V for whatever reason. Macs typically have 33V supplies. 50% higher  
voltage means 50% more current, and thus FW devices burning out or  
crashing. More trivia I've osmosed while trying to diagnose problems  
with my D-Link and LaCie FW devices (my LaCie BigDisk d2 Extreme FW  
interface burned out) :\

Alex