The high-speed USB and FireWire standards made it possible to plug in increasingly popular peripherals like CD burners, MP3 players and digital video cameras. So when you go to the store and hear all these names being thrown about, remember they're all the same thing. ("We didn't feel the word "fire" was appropriate for a consumer electronics device," explains Sonyspokesperson Mack Araki.) Several other companies, loath to use names that have been trademarked by Apple or Sony, have opted to refer to it as 1394. But when Sony licensed the technology as part of its strategy to mate PCs to consumer gear like digital video cameras, it decided to use the name iLINK. Apple gave IEEE the trademark name FireWire. The other was IEEE-1394, engineered by Apple.
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One was the Intel-developed Universal Serial Bus, more commonly known as USB. Finally, in 1999, Windows-based machines added support for a pair of new peripheral interfaces (those connectors on the front or back of your PC) that were faster and smarter than their predecessors. Unfortunately, the "plug and play" option didn't work for add-ons that require a high data-transfer rate, like hard drives and video cameras. We'd much rather buy an external device we connect to the PC with a simple cable. In practice, most of us are afraid to open up our computers to add new hardware. That's why the salesperson says when trying to close the deal: "If you want to add features later"-a CD burner, a Zip drive, an extra hard disk-"you can always upgrade." That's true in theory. When you're buying a new computer, you can never be certain you're getting the best machine.