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sparky123
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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
Seafroggys
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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.
Sorry I build my own computers, I know nothing about pre-fab computers. THat's just what I would do.
Steenamaroo
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Desktop or laptop?
You can add a firewire card to most desktop computers for very little cost.
You can add a firewire card to most desktop computers for very little cost.
Chili
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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.
I guess compared to the price difference between a pc and a mac, it's very little cost. 
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polarity
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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.
Steenamaroo
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And I could build a desktop computer that blows your mac mini away for $600
And I could put OSX on it to make it worth having.
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TimOBrien
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And I could build a desktop computer that blows your mac mini away for $600
And I've owned both platforms since 2 years before you were born.
Still find platform snobbery boring (and irrelevant)...
Tom Hicks
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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.
since PCI is being phased out, i'm sure they make the same type card in PCIe format.
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DM60
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What I posted was not good information. Deleted it to save face 
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Seafroggys
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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
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