just get a firewire 1 .. obvious firewire 2 might have some compatbility problems like the b/g issue. this is probably na issue on usb 2.0 and usb but isnce usb 1.0 is so slow it doens't matter if it's a tad inefficient
not really.. samsung will see their sales go up and returns go down (guarantee mean it is unlikely they will even sell defective pixle monitors) then the next thing you know they apply their quality assurance proceedures globally.. and...