FW800 Dead??

[Shane Ross]

You heard right, but you heard the rumors. The newly released MacBook Pro 17″ has a FW800 port. The 15″, however, does not. Interesting…and the possible cause of that rumor to be spread.

Shane

Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[Ben Holmes]

It seems pretty unlikely that Apple are planning to abandon something they have put on their latest laptop. All these rumours are based around the notion that no-one supports firewire except Apple, but there are plenty of companies making FW800 drives, so why abandon it? It’s a space-conscious, high bitrate solution, and whilst SATA is potentially better, it will also require an express-card adaptor for laptops.

Don’t believe the hype.

Ben

Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS and FCP specialists
Current Mac systems All Dual 2.7Ghz with Kona 2 and Digital Voodoo cards, 6Gb Ram, Sapphire, SCSI320 Medea and Huge Arrays.

FCP projects include Sky TV coverage of the Ryder Cup and US Open Golf – Live OB specialists. Edit/slomo vehicle.
http://www.editec.co.uk

[Robert]

Also of note is that there are already FW800/express port adaptors being made for the 15″ Macbook Pro:

https://www.siig.com/