[PD] firewire is dead?

[batinste]

I did some research about new laptops, and its far easier to find 
laptops with expresscard ports than laptops with fw ports.
My laptop has one of these awfully fragile-looking tiny fw ports AND an 
expresscard port, so i can use a firewire-expresscard port adapter 
whenever i don't feel like using the tiny port (live situations 
typically). It has the benefit to protect the motherboard at some degree 
if someone trips on the fw cable : hopefully the only thing that get 
destroyed is the adapter itself, and not the motherboard. Most of the 
times when the cable is pulled hard, either the cable is unplugged or 
the adapter gets out of its port without any damage.

On 16/10/2012 10:47, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> On 16/10/12 01:17, patrick wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> i have a firepod 1010 firewire soundcard, i am using linux / jack. the
>> new motherboard doesn't have firewire. what to do?
>
> You talk about motherboard, so I assume this is a desktop machine, I 
> think you can easily get a firewire card and hook your soundcard to that.
>
> I will spear you my rant about the situation of external sound card 
> for linux laptop users (many electronic musicians IMHO) as it would 
> only be full of bitterness and frustration.
>
> Lorenzo.
>
>
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