try and go buy a FW drive easily now... the store here only carries USB2.0 now. FW has been relegated to terrabyte raid arrays most places i see carrying them.builder wrote:External Hardrives.....
seems like FW is on its way out.
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try and go buy a FW drive easily now... the store here only carries USB2.0 now. FW has been relegated to terrabyte raid arrays most places i see carrying them.builder wrote:External Hardrives.....
Can't see how buying a slow overpriced machine would make anyone happy, but each to his own I guess!Timeline wrote:I'm actually quite happy I got a 15" 1.67 laptop a few days ago. What good is a FW 400 with two RME Fireface IO's. I can at least track with this machine happily.
I won't even think about a MacBook until the bugs are completely cleared out. Obviously MOTU got a heads up as they announced the first USB IO a month ago.
This will be VERY interesting to watch.
Well I use a dual 2.5 for my main system and will use the LT for tracking with a couple of Firefaces, no biggie.DonaldDriver wrote: Can't see how buying a slow overpriced machine would make anyone happy, but each to his own I guess!
Many of us have the option of going with optical or FireWire at this point as the G5 has an optical in/out and many FireWire devices also have optical. I sort of went thru this when they dropped SCSI (OMG!) and again when my AMIII card was unsupported. Support for the AMIII returned, but in the mean time I got a FW410 and would NEVER go back to the AMIII. Besides, there is always the PCI Express:Weekendshooter wrote:But getting an optical i/o is intriguing!
Well USB 2.0 is actually faster so....cleantone wrote:Anyone know anything about this? I read a post about the new iPods not supporting FW. An explaination is that they are focusng on USB2 and dropping FW in future designs. Anyone?
The new iPods do not support FW. However, I don't see this as saying anything about whether future Macs will or will not support FW. Apple is trying to make the iPods as small as possible, while also decreasing their cost for making them, so it makes sense to get rid of FW on the iPods for those reasons - USB2 is faster than FW400 and more universally available, and getting rid of the FW hardware in the iPod allows them to make it smaller.newrigel wrote:Well USB 2.0 is actually faster so....cleantone wrote:Anyone know anything about this? I read a post about the new iPods not supporting FW. An explaination is that they are focusng on USB2 and dropping FW in future designs. Anyone?
But in another way I think Apple should really start developing more FW 800 peripherals and get a little deeper into that technology. FW IEEE 1394 spec A was great but USB 2.0 got it's # and so that's where the problem starts for Apple. BANDWIDTH! That's the new buzz word he-he!
I don't know... I really don't need a faster computer than I have now just a little more intuitiveness from DP would be great!
USB 2.0 is faster in theory but in a few real world tests I have read(uhh, cannot post the link, bad memory) FW400 has beaten the USB 2. FW400 usually operates near theoretical maximum, USB2 not.newrigel wrote:Well USB 2.0 is actually faster
I think this is because USB 2.0 doesn't run off its own dedicated card, so it's prone to interrruptions. This is of little to no consequence to most computers users since they use USB 2.0 for basic data transfer. But, for audio production, which requires a lot of uninterrrupted data i/o, it can be a problem.papageno wrote:USB 2.0 is faster in theory but in a few real world tests I have read(uhh, cannot post the link, bad memory) FW400 has beaten the USB 2. FW400 usually operates near theoretical maximum, USB2 not.newrigel wrote:Well USB 2.0 is actually faster