Does Anybody Know of A pc Laptop with powered firewire ports

starving student · Post by **starving student** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:50 pm

devices like a mac can, i know there are alot of pcs with firewire ports but i can't seem to find one that will power external firewire devices with said ports?

louZ · Post by **louZ** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:19 am

AFAIK all firewire ports can power external devices, just like usb...

Patrick DSP · Post by **Patrick DSP** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:26 am

louZ wrote:AFAIK all firewire ports can power external devices, just like usb...

6 pin firewire is powered
4 pin firewire / i-link is not powered

any pcmcia cards that do offer a 6 pin firewire slot needs to be powered via a wallwart power supply. i don't know of any laptop that offers a fully powered 6pin firewire port

starving student · Post by **starving student** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:36 am

what kind of laptop do you have lousz cause i can't find any!!!

starving student · Post by **starving student** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:37 am

and thanks patrick, unfortunately thats what i've found so far

rikhyray · Post by **rikhyray** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:47 am

Acer might be the only one. 17`` monster with P4 3.2G,.
Plus- 6 pin FW, or even 2, regular desktop 3.5 HD and RAM ( means cheap to upgrade).
Minus- hot, noisy and heavy - 15 pounds.

interceptor · Post by **interceptor** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:49 am

Don't know if this is available outside scandinavia....

http://www.frostnetwork.se/products.php?prodid=62

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:01 am

there are very few pc laptop with bus-powered fw. By far the sexiest I've found:
http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/tm3000.htm
- the specs are... well... stunning!

starving student · Post by **starving student** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:12 am

thanks guys, damn!!! how much is that acer, I can't find the price?

Flowbee · Post by **Flowbee** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:05 am

starving student wrote:thanks guys, damn!!! how much is that acer, I can't find the price?

Just google "Acer TravelMate 3000." Looks like it can be had for around $1,300 (US).

robin · Post by **robin** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 9:54 am

Machinate wrote: - the specs are... well... stunning!

nice machine that. shame about the shared graphics card though but other than that...

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:18 am

I still think that with shared graphics this machine rocks. If I had that kind of money today, I'd soooo buy it.

forge · Post by **forge** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:52 am

shared graphics is over hyped anyway, you'd probably be surprised at what I can get out of my humble athlon 2200 with 64MB SHARED graphics, the 1GB ram no doubt helps, but still

louZ · Post by **louZ** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:08 pm

starving student wrote:what kind of laptop do you have lousz cause i can't find any!!!

none, i'm afraid.
i was under the assumption that all firewire ports could power devices, but looks like i was wrong

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:11 pm

Keep in mind that just because a laptop might have 6 pin firewire, that doesn't neccesarily mean that it can power your external devices. IF your soundcard for instance wants more power than the firebus can reliably provide, you might still get a lot of weird issues.