USB and such (was: Mac Mini)

Am 2 Dec 2005 7:47 meinte Cini, Richard: Well, what do you need? USB is a prety good system and delivers an interface for all actual stuff I ever need. Originaly I was also quite sceptic of USB, but after digging into the low level structure, I became somewhat of an evangelist (*1). And if you realy want to do high speed disks there's still the fire wire port for high thruput to a single device (*2). Printers (at least the ones I tried) run faster on USB, and I can't find any real reason for serial on an average Desktop anymore (*3). Last but the not least, the usual 'I still have a 10 MB SCSI drive I want to connect isn't realy an argument. Well, for the PC-World, such little EPIA boxes are what I usualy recommend to (non tech *4) people. small, silent, and more than they ever need to run Word. Gruss H. *1 - In fact, if I had to design a new system today, I would use USB as a bus structure to be used for add on cards. Simple handling, no interface problems, no electrical problems,easy driver structure and fast enough for almost everything, even including graphics. To be OT again: does anybody remember the PC375 that used SCSI as bus system for it's I/O cards? USB _IS_ todays SCSI. *2 - If disk size and speed is THAT cruical, the MiniMe might be the wrong choice in the first place. Get yourself a big fat tower. *3 - If someone comes up with DSL or Modems here, I would suggest that by jumping from a bridge it's more fun to loose your mind. A router costs a few bucks and takes away a whole universe of problems. *4 - And I learned that even a lot of tech educated people like the idea of a small 'just-use-it' box. -- VCF Europa 7.0 am 29/30.April und 01.Mai 2006 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/