"There aren't any Mac drivers, for a start," said a publicity official - adding, mysteriously, "we're waiting for Apple to provide them."

either the guy is totally stupid or just loves to be cynical: apple will *not* spend one minute to create a driver for this device which would only lower their iPod sales.

as for the firewire/usb debatte:
both connectors are way too fast for the small hard drive.. the main advantage of FW is not speed but powersupply and less CPU required, the disadvantage is cost.