Re: [videoblogging] Re: question for Macbook Pro owners

2006-06-03 Thread Jen Simmons
You'll only see a difference when you are doing something that needs the extra speed. If, for example, you are capturing DV video, the bandwidth needed is under the limit for 400, so switching to 800 doesn't make the process any faster. The big difference that I encounter is when I copy

Re: [videoblogging] Re: question for Macbook Pro owners

2006-06-02 Thread Jen Simmons
Why two Firewire 800 ports on the card, instead of just one? Probably simply because the room to fit them both was there and it was just as easy to do two as it was to do one. Plus, sometimes it's just easier / fast to plug a second drive into the computer -- ie: I'm working a group of

Re: [videoblogging] Re: question for Macbook Pro owners

2006-06-02 Thread André Sala
Has anyone every really compared performance between FW400 800? I have an 800 drive plugged into the 800 port on my G5, and I honestly do not see any better performance than with my other 400 drives. Seems to me there's a bottleneck elsewhere that doesn't let the entire system really take

[videoblogging] Re: question for Macbook Pro owners

2006-06-01 Thread David Howell
When one can daisy chain firewire...why would one need another port? Am I missing something here? David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, T.Whid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Has anyone tried or seen any reviews for this product: *2-Port

Re: [videoblogging] Re: question for Macbook Pro owners

2006-06-01 Thread T . Whid
I suppose if you had a device with only one firwire port and you needed to connect two.Lots of hard drives come with only one firewire 800 port.On 6/1/06, David Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When one can daisy chain firewire...why would one need another port?Am I missing something

Re: [videoblogging] Re: question for Macbook Pro owners

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Verdi
On 6/1/06, David Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When one can daisy chain firewire...why would one need another port?Am I missing something here?I think the deal here is that it's FireWire 800 which is missing from the 15 MacBook Pro. Jen Simmons and I were talking about that the other day,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: question for Macbook Pro owners

2006-06-01 Thread john coffey
I have an external FW 800 hooked to my G4 Tower and it works as fast as the internals. Love it, never tried an external FW 400. --- Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/1/06, David Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When one can daisy chain firewire...why would one need another