usb: disable

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:42:21 PDT 2004


On 12/30/02 17:22, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 05:02:49PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
> ..
>>Yea, IEEE1394 hardware is still quite pricy.  Its not being marketed as 
>>well as USB, and AFAIK, only Macs, and some laptops come standard with a 
>>firewire port.
> 
> When was the last time you looked at FireWire pricing?  I bought an Adaptec
> FireConnect 4300 PCI card at CompUSA about a month ago for about $50US, an
> external ADS chassis for $99.95, and a Maxtor 120GB IDE drive for it for
> another $99.95.  I bought an external 120GB LaCie drive about six months
> ago at an Apple store for $350.00US.

ok, apparently, i didn't look recently enough :)

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