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Does Anybody Know of A pc Laptop with powered firewire ports
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:50 pm
by starving student
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?
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:19 am
by louZ
AFAIK all firewire ports can power external devices, just like usb...
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:26 am
by Patrick DSP
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
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:36 am
by starving student
what kind of laptop do you have lousz cause i can't find any!!!
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:37 am
by starving student
and thanks patrick, unfortunately thats what i've found so far
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:47 am
by rikhyray
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.
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:49 am
by interceptor
Don't know if this is available outside scandinavia....
http://www.frostnetwork.se/products.php?prodid=62
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:01 am
by Machinate
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!
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:12 am
by starving student
thanks guys, damn!!! how much is that acer, I can't find the price?
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:05 am
by Flowbee
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).
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 9:54 am
by robin
Machinate wrote:
- the specs are... well... stunning!
nice machine that. shame about the shared graphics card though but other than that...
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:18 am
by Machinate
I still think that with shared graphics this machine rocks. If I had that kind of money today, I'd soooo buy it.
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:52 am
by forge
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
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:08 pm
by louZ
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
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:11 pm
by Tarekith
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.