Re: Cutting Edge
Michael Richmond <[email protected]>
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At 18:49 02/05/03, Mike Long wrote:
>Of course they could have put BOTH ports on there...but Apple took the easy
>way out
Yes, assuming there was room to do this and maintain form factor (both
in terms of space for the port and dual charging hardware to support different
voltage levels from each port if necessary.)
I also suspect that USB may not have been able to provide the power to have
a reasonable rechargetime.
Eduardo Delgado wrote:
>Future growth upto a year or so. Then it'll become obsolete for the new
>ideas they'll have. ;-) They won't be able to inject video in there, or
>output
>dolby 5.1, or whatever they'll imagine.
>
>Still, the dock should have standard FW & USB connectors, plus a small
>adapter custom/standard (like the 4-to-6) if you don't want to use/carry the
>dock. There shouldn't be a need for custom cables.
True, but not everybody gets a dock.
In terms of injecting video or other high bandwidth I/O, if they have opened up
the firewire lines while in "Play" mode, then a small adapter could house a
digital converter and dump the result onto the data bus.
But all of this is just hypothesizing.
...michael
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Michael Richmond
Department of Computer Sciences e-mail: [email protected]
Purdue University, Indiana phone: +1 (765) 494 6634
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