firewire question (mac)(presonus firestudio project

[milton847]

i recently bought a firestudio project for a good price and today was the day i wanted to spend on buying a computer

i was gonna get this

N/A
Processor Type Intel Core 2 Duo
Screen Size 15.4"
RAM (Preloaded / Maximum) 4GB
Hard Drive 250GB Serial ATA-5400 rpm
Optical Drives 8x Slot-Load SuperDrive
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
Average Battery Life Up To 7 Hours
Product Weight 2.49 kg
Audio Type Apple Audio
Battery Type Lithium-Polymer
Cache 3MB Shared L2
Fax/Modem Not Applicable
I/O Ports FireWire; Mini Display; USB 2.0
Included In Box Power Adapter; DVD; Cloth; Manual
Network Card 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit
Other Software Time Machine; Quick Look; Spotlight;
PC Card Slots No
Pointing Device Multi-Touch Trackpad
Preloaded Operating System Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard
Processor Speed 2.53 GHz
Product Dimensions 36.4(W) x (2.41(H) x 24.9(D) cm
Removable Storage No
Screen Type LED Glossy
Speakers Yes
System Bus 1066MHz
Warranty 1 Year


but it comes with a firewire s800 connection and after reading on presonus's website i found that there is known problems with not using a firewire400 port can i still buy the mackbookpro and use a cable since it is suposed to be backwards-compatible?

is this gonna work

 

[dgatwood]

Unless there's some really bizarre firmware bug in the FSP, it should work just as well or badly with FireWire 800 as it does with FireWire 400....

P.S. Presonus seems to do their best to come up with excuses for their broken firmware and hardware. The FireStudio is based on a TC Electronic DICE II chipset, which is a colossal train wreck on both Mac OS X and Windows. Hope it works for you. Sadly, even if you follow their hardware recommendations to the letter, there's still a good chance it won't.