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 people in our studio these days, passing drives back and forth
and need to get into one quickly and then pass it back... I might throw
it into the second port on the laptop instead of the back of my drive,
to prevent jarring / disconnecting the cables on my drive. If the
second port wasn't there, it might not matter... but since it is... And
yes, as someone said, not all devices have two ports, so you'd have to
get a hub -- which is a pain in the ass on a portable system that you
are moving all the time.
As for the slot itself, I've also seen gigabyte ethernet cards, and
serial ATA for the new slot.
http://www.expresscard-info.com/
What I WANT a videocard for that slot, so I can hook up two external
monitors at the same time -- or rather, two projectors so I can do cool
multi-projector things with MAX-MSP / Jitter and my laptop in live
performance settings. The project I'm working on right now is a four
projector gig, and so we've loaded up a Quad PowerMac with videocards
to give us the ability to send separate signals to four projectors and
a monitor at the same time, but for smaller versions of this same kind
of work... being able to use a laptop would be ideal. Any thoughts on
whether or not we'll see a videocard?
It sounds like there will not be a compact flash card reader, however,
because the 34mm slot is physically too small to fit flash cards.
People are bummed out about that.
jen
jenSimmons
http://www.jensimmons.com
On Jun 1, 2006, at 10:18 PM, Michael Verdi wrote:
>
> 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, wondering what you could find for that slot. The first
> thing that came to mind was FW 800 since some PowerBook owners have FW
> 800 drives since they shipped with 800 ports for a couple of years
> now.
>
> -Verdi
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