Hey There!
I have the last 17" macbook pro that came out with one firewire 400 & firewire 800 port. I am thinking of upgrading and will miss the firewire 400 port. As I tether to the firewire 400 and connect pocket drives to the 800 to back up to several locations.
Has anyone seen any limitations with the new machines. Is there that much of a speed difference in the newer machines?
Are there hubs out there for firewire 800? I guess I could transfer to USB, but seems like it could be slow.
Any user advice would be very helpful in whether to buy the new machine or hold off a bit.
JT
For years I've shot with a fw400 from computer to p31+, using the 800 fw ports to a Lacie rugged jumped to another lacie rugged for backup.
C-1 is set to go straight to the first fw 800 rugged and then manually backed up between sessions to the next portable lacie and with the previous two generations of 17" macbook pros never had a single issue, or a single lost file (that I know of).
Now I wonder about going from fw800 to a 400 converter, etc. etc. and honestly for capture I'll just stick with the slightly older generations of powerbooks until I can't find them anymore, because my workflow works and I don't change much as long as it's working and since I have a dozen of the Lacie Rugged's I'd rather not change that system.
Now I mainly tether the Canons in usb and have few issues so probably don't need a 400 port, but still like the thought of a 400 and 800 fw port if needed.
I think one of the reasons I've had few problems is I keep the capture machine clear of everything, other than ps, c-1 and dpp and keep the startup drive clear and always view a capture machine to be used only for capture and maybe processing jpegs out on the road, but never as anything else.
BC
