FireWire not dead, but it's on life support - but the life support is pretty bad. Just checked again: the new iPods (Nano and Video) no longer have FireWire. Which is quite ridiculous, because my Mac Mini doesn't have USB 2 - and I really don't want to copy my music collection with USB 1. What is Apple thinking with such a stupid thing? FireWire can certainly not be replaced by this miserable USB 2. Even new computers will probably only reluctantly include a FireWire port if the machines from Apple are considered suitable for video content. A real shame, because FireWire is a really useful connection technology that also offers good performance reserves for future devices - and unlike USB 2, it doesn't overload the CPU with data shoveling.