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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: whawn on December 03, 2008, 10:47:32 pm

Title: Windows laptop w/Firewire i/o?
Post by: whawn on December 03, 2008, 10:47:32 pm

I've taken the plunge and gone slightly digital. Bought a P45, which uses firewire for tethered shooting. Don't figure I'll do a *lot* of that out in the wild, but for learning and some other situations it'd be the bee's knees, if I had a Windows laptop with integral firewire i/o.  I need a new laptop anyway, so are any such available? and where?  If not, what's a good work-around?

Thanks,

Title: Windows laptop w/Firewire i/o?
Post by: John.Murray on December 03, 2008, 11:59:04 pm

I just bit on one of these:

http://www.dell.com/content/products/produ...;l=en&s=bsd (http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/workstation_precision_m2400?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd)

64 Bit O/S support, 8GB RAM, 256MB OpenGL Graphics, 1394, eSata, Hi Capacity Battery available, and (at least for me) a *Matte Screen*

Title: Windows laptop w/Firewire i/o?
Post by: PTeeCee on December 05, 2008, 03:07:18 pm

You could look at this Belkin Expresscard hub that has two firewire ports in it. Works fine on my MacBook Pro, and comes with 'detailed' instructions for Windows installation.

http://www.compsource.com/pn/F5U506/Belkin_59/ (http://www.compsource.com/pn/F5U506/Belkin_59/)

PTC