{"id":1554,"date":"2008-02-24T09:37:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T12:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2419"},"modified":"2010-05-08T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:00:00","slug":"re-design-snowball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/re-design-snowball\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Design snowball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>uliwitness wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh, BTW, also found your review of the FireWire power specs interesting. I was hoping someone with better electrical skills than me would eventually post the fundamental maths involved to prove\/disprove the &#8220;No FireWire cuz it needs too much juice&#8221; theory that&#8217;s been bandied about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The post was already too long, so I didn&#8217;t mention the possibility of using the Sony 4-pin FireWire connector, which doesn&#8217;t supply any power; it&#8217;s also much smaller, getting around some of the space argument too.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;d be a hassle needing an external power supply for those small portable FW drives; most of them don&#8217;t come with one. Also I&#8217;m not sure whether Apple would have to pay Sony for that.<\/p>\n<p>As I also said previously, each extra USB connector would also need more space and power, though less (2.5W) than FireWire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>uliwitness wrote: Oh, BTW, also found your review of the FireWire power specs interesting. I was hoping someone with better electrical skills than me would eventually post the fundamental maths involved to prove\/disprove the &#8220;No FireWire cuz it needs too much juice&#8221; theory that&#8217;s been bandied about. The post was already too long, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-hardware","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-p4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}