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USB1 or FireWire webcam?

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Whadda think? My laptop has both ports (no usb2 though). Will i see a difference in performace? Does anyone have any webcam recommendations? I was looking at Apples one, uses firewire...thanks for the help.
 

Ecrofirt

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well, I know FireWire pushes data a lot faster than USB1, but I don't really know if that matters for a webcam.
 

impirius

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Well, FireWire is a lot faster than USB 1.1, so you should probab...

*spits out soda*

$150 for the Apple iSight?! You've got to be kidding me! What the hell?! Buy a little Logitech Quickcam Express for under $30 and spend that other $120 on something else.
 
wow yeah thats a lil steep for a webcam, it would be more as a toy, occasionally IM with it or something. ibot i think makes a firewire one as well. i'll have to research that
 

Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
My logitech quickcam works quite fine when plugged into USB1.1.

That said, I recently added Firewire and it is MANY times faster than USB1.1.
 
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