On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Dave Phillips wrote: > Excellent article/interviews. However, it ignores a rather salient > development - the gradual disappearance of Firewire from desktop and laptop > machines. The last time I shopped I was surprised to see that FW, like PCI, > is becoming rare hardware, presumably due to improved performance from USB3 > (?). It's rather because of USB2 stack on WIndows becoming more solid. There were times when some M-Audio's USB2 interfaces couldn't be used on Windows at all due to IRQ collisions. A friend of mine gave up on one and exchanged it to a FireWire interface some 6 or 7 years ago, and that was quite common. So, I thought about this, but then again I couldn't find much info on actual rejection of FireWire by vendors as in numbers, stats etc. So I thought I'd rather skip it. Thunderbolt is an interesting approach, but I've yet to see a single audio interface for real work, not fun, using it. > Otherwise a fine piece. Thanks for the pointer, Alex ! You are welcome :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
