laptops with texas instuments firewire chipset

[jpedder]

you can read a lot about problems concerning non texasinstruments firewire chipsets and the most pro audio firewire interfaces.... dropouts, glitches etc..
in some cases even the installation of an ti firewire expresscard won´t help, maybe because the cardslot is managed by kind of sloppy controllers.
so happend to me.

i´m now crawling through the internet and looking for actual laptop models with onboard (or built-in, whatever) ti firewire chipsets, but every single manufacturer seem to make a big secret about what chipsets are used. nothing in manuals, support documents, tech specs...

this is a problem a lot people are affected from, as can be seen on google and here in the forum. i thought it would be nice to collect model names, which has this ti chipset. this can be checked in the device manager.

that would help a lot people, and at the end of the day, me.
maybe you agree and we will find some...

 

[funkin182]

id buy a desktop for recording, a texas instruments pci card cost me $20 off ebay and worked fine. if your laptop is giving you grief you can try buying a firewire pcmcia card that has a ti chipset

 

[oretez]

While I'm typing this on a 2004 Dell Latitude D800 that includes TI firewire.

Am not sure that brand, model and year are sufficient. I have used laptops + firewire for audio production for a decade, and most familiar with IBM (now Lenovo) and even adding the 7 digit 'type' number to the mix is insufficient to be sure, sight unseen, that a a specific unit as a specific chipset.

For thinkpads IBM had online resources that based on the 7 digit 'type' from which you could determine a lot of manufacturing specifics. Lenovo also provides a pdf with a lot of specific info (that link is neither the most current nor does it list discontinued models. But Tabook references for specific models are relatively easy to find.

In my experience few computer brands are as forthcoming with specifics as IBM was. And for good reason. In the manufacture are specific components mandated for all chips, cards, etc. A 'brand' Company might specify a specific processor for a particular model, 1 of 2 Vid cards, 1 of a half dozen NICs, etc. Kind of depended on what was available on the 'line' when a board got to that point.

While I do not pretend that my info is currently thorough I do not know of any currently, off the rack, laptop models that incorporate onboard TI (or lucent) firewire. I have had good fortune with Cardbus from Belkin and most recetly an express card SIIG, but that was on a client system for a single live project.

The resource to search for is for a manufacturers equivalent of the IBM Tabook.

good luck