Indeed, until the latest Macbook (pro) usb 2 was very slow on the mac. And
maybe I'm remembering the times of USB 1.0, since that was the last time I
used a scanner witrh USB. Since then it has been firewire. Firewire has one
big advantage hewever: I can plug the scanner into the harddrive, as well as
my card reader, without needing a hub, like usb....
Iwert.
2008/10/26 Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> If what you say is true then Macs must have very poor implementations of
> USB 2.0. Despite USB 2.0's faster instantaneous trasfer rate Firewire
> is faster than USB 2.0 for applications such as hard drives. However,
> the data rate on a scanner doesn't come anywhere near the capacity of
> either interface. The specs on my Epson V700 scanner (which is fairly
> fast) claim a scan time of 12.3 ms per scan line at 4800 dpi which
> produces 122,000 16-bit pixels. That equates to 158.7 megabits/second
> or about 1/3 of USB 2.0's 480 megabit transfer rate. Epson provides
> both interfaces on this scanner and neither is recommended over the
> other nor are they spec'd differently for scanner performance. I think
> the reason is that neither interface is even breathing hard at this data
> rate.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> iwert bernakiewicz wrote:
>
> >
> > btw, keep in mind that scanning will be a lot faster using firewire than
> usb
> > 2 on a mac, and that firewire 400 can be used on an 800 port (through
> > adapter) without speed penalties.
> >
> > Iwert
>
>
>
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