apples and firewire

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have to buy a new computer. mine does not support firewire and my new presonus studiolive only uses firewire. any suggestions on what I can gey at the best price? apples are very pricey
 
Get a motherboard with firewire on it?

Sorry I build my own computers, I know nothing about pre-fab computers. THat's just what I would do.
 
Desktop or laptop?
You can add a firewire card to most desktop computers for very little cost.
 
Steenamaroo said:
Desktop or laptop?
You can add a firewire card to most desktop computers for very little cost.
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"very little cost" might be subjective. I spent about $80usd on mine because it is the only one that works with my interface. :mad: I guess compared to the price difference between a pc and a mac, it's very little cost. :)
 
Do your research before you purchase. The studiolive boards are pretty picky about which firewire chipsets they work with. Last I read no one was really having a problem with the apple ones because they all used Texas Instruments chipset. I would definitely check the firewire card chipset in anything you are about to buy against the presonus checklist.
 
Seafroggys said:
And I could build a desktop computer that blows your mac mini away for $600 :D
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And I've owned both platforms since 2 years before you were born.
Still find platform snobbery boring (and irrelevant)...
 
i added a firewire pci card to a PC tower some years back, didn't spend more than about $20 on it. luckily it had the TI chipset everyone recommends. i never had a bit of trouble with it using various firewire interfaces, like the M-Audio profire lightbridge and the Alesis fireport.

since PCI is being phased out, i'm sure they make the same type card in PCIe format.
 
What I posted was not good information. Deleted it to save face :facepalm:
 
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TimOBrien said:
And I've owned both platforms since 2 years before you were born.
Still find platform snobbery boring (and irrelevant)...
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This wasn't a platform argument, this was a hardware argument. Laptops do not give you bang-for-buck that desktops give you. If you have sources to counter that, please present them, because I want to be found wrong. And building your own desktop is by far the cheapest option, and gives you the best quality components. Pre-fab computers, even Macs, tend to not have the highest end components.

I used to actually really like Macs before they went with Intel, the G5 was a very impressive processor during that era. Now that they're Intel, I can't seem to find a good reason to go with Mac anymore. But that's a different topic to my actual argument, so I digress :D
 
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