USB isn't that slow, FireWire might be twice
the speed, but USB is fine for pics, Hell I still
use a Parallel port to upload Pics to my computer
USB 1.1 is 12Mbps
Firewire is 400Mbps
USB 2.0 is actually 480Mbps
so makes USB2.0 faster than Firewire, but there is now
Firewire II that is 800Mbps, but I haven't seen it on a PC yet.
For all purposes I like Firewire for most things, just because drives easily power themselves on the bus without an external power supply, but for pictures USB 1.1 is the norm and works perfectly fine, I have a 512mb card and no hangups downloading over USB1.1 at all. In fact I still have an old camera that is serial...
Ok, more than anyone wanted to know.....sorry...
