USB 2.0 better than Firewire??? (Score 3)

I think not. USB 2.0 may be faster in terms of throughput than Firewire, but not on CPU utilization. USB sucks up more processor, and thereby slowing your entire machine down. This is another example of Chipzilla driving a "need" for faster processors. Remember about a year ago when DVD technology came to the PC arena. Some video card companies came out with hardware DVD decoding solutions. Intel made the push that their Pentium II processors could easily handle software decoding of DVD, and therefore the hardware DVD solutions were not needed. I'm all for the fastest processor, but not when it's need to mask performance bottlenecks in other areas. Who wants to do one thing on their PC? Why do we even try to multitask? And I guess the fact that Firewire was invented by Apple has nothing to do with Intel pushing their new "faster" solution.