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    PCMCIA Firewire VS Buit in Firewire

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by dcodof, Oct 18, 2006.

  1. dcodof

    dcodof Notebook Guru

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    I'm almost getting my new T60 but this issue is bugging me.

    Would a firewire pcmcia card work with the same quality of any buit in firewire? (I mean for video editing). If so, the only real advantage of having a buit in firewire port on the computer is not having the trouble of carrying the card?

    I've found another thread here where a guy says that he got a pcmcia firewire card for his T60 for $16 at Ebay. Is that really reasonable? Doesn't the quality change a lot?

    Thanks!

    Daniel
     
    dcodof, Oct 18, 2006
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  2. RogueMonk

    RogueMonk Notebook Deity

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    There should be no difference between the two.
     
    RogueMonk, Oct 18, 2006
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  3. dcodof

    dcodof Notebook Guru

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    What about the brand issue? Should the quality change a lot?
     
    dcodof, Oct 19, 2006
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  4. dcodof

    dcodof Notebook Guru

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    I just found this:

    "Oh, and if you want to add firewire capabilities to your T60 by adding a PCMCIA card, forget about it. They don't work with this computer and will crash it. A call to support revealed that Lenovo "has no documentation whatsover regarding using firewire with the T60.""

    http://reviews.cnet.com/Lenovo_Thin...essageSiteID=7&messageID=1843134&cval=1843134

    Shouldn't I be really worried?? Can anybody tell me if this is really the case?
     
    dcodof, Oct 19, 2006
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  5. dcodof

    dcodof Notebook Guru

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    dcodof, Oct 19, 2006
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  6. IdontexistM8

    IdontexistM8 Notebook Consultant

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    As a prospective T60 buyer and regular firewire user I'm also interested in this.
     
    IdontexistM8, Oct 20, 2006
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  7. bedi

    bedi Notebook Enthusiast

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    The best, most proven PCMCIA card is the LaCie firewire 800 cardbus.

    http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10482


    two firewire 800 and one firewire 400 ports


    It has a Texas Instruments FW controller - the best.

    This solution is actually better then some notebooks firewire implementation so don´t worry!
     
    bedi, Oct 20, 2006
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  8. tjoff

    tjoff Notebook Geek

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    If you'll have any use for it. I'm not saying that the LaCie isn't goot but it is probably not cheap and it is in most cases just overkill.

    The harddrive barely keeps up with Firewire 400 and for video-editing it's _much_ less.
     
    tjoff, Oct 20, 2006
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  9. bedi

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    If you don´t get the lacie at least get one with a Texas Instruments firewire controller to be on the safe side.
     
    bedi, Oct 20, 2006
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