On 22/8/04, John Francis, discombobulated, offered: >> Actually they have changed the designs recently and this is the line-up: >> >> <http://www.digitalfilm.com/readers/> >> >> Yes and they even attach to PCs - unbelievable but true. > >I bought their firewire CF reader, because my notebook PC has firewire. > >Unfortunately I should have read the fine print of the IEEE 1394 specs; >the 4-pin mini-firewire connector on my PC doesn't supply power, so it >doesn't work with the Lexar reader. > >Apparently you *can* buy a 4-wire to 6-wire power injector. >It's significantly bulkier than the firewire reader, of course, >and includes yet another wall-wart to be plugged in somewhere.
Ah, tricky. I suppose the thing to do when renewing the laptop is to ensure 6 pins on the Firewire. I find the power out on the Firewire to be very useful - I have a small LaCie Pocket Drive ext hard drive for backups and you just plug it in and off it goes. Powerbooks and iBooks have the powered Firewire and automatic recognition in the OS so Mac users may like to consider the Lexar units. HTH Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________
