Re: [OT] (A little) : Firewire cables...

[Jim Noble <yahoo-groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil Harris wrote:
>> doesn't sound so terrible ... staying with the 'Mac, I mean !
>>
> Ideally it would be nice to get hold of something a bit meatier then a
Mac
> Mini ... the one I have at the moment is borrowed from a friend (but
does
> such a damn good job that I've been hanging on to it) but it would be
nice
> to have gigabit networking, native 1394b (firewire800) support and
more than
> one firewire port.
> Thing is, the intel Mac Minis might have gigabit LAN but they're still
a
> single Firewire400 port on them.
> A PowerMac would be lovely but is rather OTT for what I need and would
put
> up the power consumption by quite a hefty amount (however it could be
filled
> with firewire800 cards so it would be pretty damn quick at shuffling
data
> around) - oh - and they still pull in quite high values on ebay too!
>

I really don't understand why Apple haven't produced a "Mac Midi"
that
has a bit of expansion space (say, 2x3.5"HD, x16PCIe, x4PCIe, 2xFW800,
etc, maybe even dual cpu). It's a really big hole in their lineup...

Jim