How to transfer data from an old computer to a new one?

However, Intel was not interested in paying the near-dollar license fee to add an IEEE 1394 subsystem to their board. The fee was reduced to a flat 25 cents, but Intel prefered to push for its own USB 2.0 standard. As a result, they were rarely provided as standard equipment on computers other than Apple Macintosh computers (Apple owns rights to the FireWire standard), and peripheral manufacturers offered many more USB devices. Moreover, USB 2.0 Hi-Speed reached a performance level sufficient for consumer equipment while retaining compatibility with older devices. An example of how the popularity of USB displaced FireWire in a commercial device is the Apple iPod. It was originally released with a FireWire connector, which was eventually modified to allow for both USB and FireWire connections when the product was released for Windows. 4th generation iPods used USB and Firewire for data transfer and only allows a FireWire connection to charge the battery from the mains adapter. The iPod does charge via both cables when connected to the host computer. The 5th generation iPods use USB for data transfer and both USB and Firewire for charging.