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depends.
I actually just bought an exterbal WD Pro 500gb today - and it happens to faster than any ext drive tested (this I fond out when I got home reading a cnet review - I was quite chuffed).
I was about to pull the trigger on a Lacie Quadra (usb2, fw400,fw800 and Esata) but it was $30 more - I'm ...

Yeah - the things about the 24", like the CD2 and FW 800 when I originally ordered it over two months ago have been negated by the new MBP CD2's.
Speedstepping worries me a little, but otherwise the MBP looks the go.
There seems no middle ground with apple. If they had an Imac with a conroe, heck ...

This may be of some interrest to some people - from the logic users forum:

Does it matter that the firwire 400 and 800 on the
> 24" imac are on the same bus? Some people have told
> me that may be a problem - don't know why exactly...

Two reasons:

1) If you use a FW800 device by itself, you get ...

I currently have a presonus fire box and any number of external FW 400 drives.
I am more looking at the future proofing ( an oxymoron I know when speaking of computers) because I want to get a glyph drive which have FW 400, 800, USB 2 and e sata ports at the back.
Also I'm looking to get a new ...

Daisy chaining FW devices for audio is a big no-no. In theory I suppose it would work but these things tend go wrong at the worst of times. In front of lots of people

Yeah - I'm hearing you. But as I said at the time Logic supported both platforms. Then Apple came in, dropped support for PC's and around $3000 (aus) later I just cant let it go - third Mac, really cut - missed out on the fairly lary CPU gains of the G5 - now after the Intel transition I'm looking ...

Nope - they wont do anything. Because I ordered it with the 256mg Nvida card its a special order. I kinda did a slightly dodgy thing with work that means I can get a laptop ex-tax. Now I would have waited but had an extremely good pay one month which means i essentially got it for free (nearly - I ...

I mean, whats the point of having a FW 800 port and a FW 400 port if I cant run a FW800 device AND a fw 400 device at THE SAME TIME. The FW 800 gets nuetered to FW 400 throughput
Fuck.
I didn;t read the fine print " FW 800 & FW 400 shared". I only saw that when I really looked at the tech spechs ...

I agree - but until i get my 24' imac I aint gonna bother. 24hrs shipping my ass. I've beeen waiting foe 4 weeks. I think the Abes are gonna get my money but I'll try the demo once i get my new comp.

I want sampler real bad - exs is great in some ways but I've heard Kontakt/exs direct comparisons and the difference is HUGE. The previous beauty of the exs was its light CPU usage but that has been totally negated due to the super-duper intel chips that are out nowadays.

What are your experiences ...

Just checked the apple website - the IMac has 15w shared for the firewire buses - so I Imagine the macbook pro's, being laptops dont have the same amount of bus power available to them for power conversation REASONS, ect.
Could be the reason

Really? That sounds odd. I'm going to have to get some info on this. I will share what I find. Why have two ports with different data rates and only be able to use one device at a time.

OK - I'll be more specific.
This is a question about a potential purchase.
I am hosting Live 6 samples, Logic pro EXS samples and Reason samples.
My Comp has one fw 400 port and one fw 800 port.
The 400 port will have my firebox connected and I am going to connect either an ex 400 or 800 HDD on the ...

Has no-one had experience with this?

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