Comment Re:Why do we need PC cards anyhow (Score 3, Insightful) 187
I'm not quite sure I'm informed, but I'll give it a shot:
Firewire 800 is only 800 M*bits*/s ~ 100M*bytes*/s
from the article is seems that one way data flow is 250 M*bytes*/s
so it appears to be about 2.5x as fast. That's one advantage.
Having a small harddrive (or other small peripheral) that you could access at high speeds (not a lot around, I know: but think of future advances), that wouldn't be dangling around outside your computer. And since laptops are notable not very expandable, but *supposed* to be portable, having something small and fast and not as much trouble as external drives (8lb notebook + 2 lb external drive = too many pounds) is a Good Idea(tm) in my book.
additionally, there has been some speculation about CPU, memmory, and graphics modules that could be slipped in, but it's not very clear if that's possible or even feasible. But that would be cool if it ever worked.
Firewire 800 is only 800 M*bits*/s ~ 100M*bytes*/s
from the article is seems that one way data flow is 250 M*bytes*/s
so it appears to be about 2.5x as fast. That's one advantage.
Having a small harddrive (or other small peripheral) that you could access at high speeds (not a lot around, I know: but think of future advances), that wouldn't be dangling around outside your computer. And since laptops are notable not very expandable, but *supposed* to be portable, having something small and fast and not as much trouble as external drives (8lb notebook + 2 lb external drive = too many pounds) is a Good Idea(tm) in my book.
additionally, there has been some speculation about CPU, memmory, and graphics modules that could be slipped in, but it's not very clear if that's possible or even feasible. But that would be cool if it ever worked.
