Another advantage to FireWire is that it doesn’t need a computer host, nor does it need to signal the other component that it’s “alive,” as current USB implementations must. This kind of data ...

So, my 20GB iPod is on the way, thanks to a big discount from a friend who works at Apple. My Sony Vaio has built-in FireWire that I'm hoping I can use for the initial file transfer. Longer-term, I'd ...