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

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

'see SJ has responded +vely to e-mails sent to him about the
iPhone ... maybe one would work on that subject, too ... ??

Chris


On 8 Sep 2007, at 12:41, Jim Noble wrote:

> 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