Will Apple support the stand alone isight in new ProMac Towers?
Like many others my MDD G4 is long in the tooth and am looking forward to new tower hardware. I really hope that my stand alone isight will not become a paper weight and plan to ride this FP Dell monitor for as long as I can with the new tower offerings. So even if new Cinema Displays come out w/ built-in cameras do you all think that Cupertino will still support this great FW camera or will they cheapen it up with a USB version to garner PC fans? Here's hoping that they still believe in and support FW products.
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What do people connect with the FireWire port on their Cinema displays? Hard Disks?
Originally posted by Xool
I think it is more likely that Apple will drop the FireWire ports on the displays but keep FireWire support on the towers themselves. Aside from iSight and my old iPod mini, I'd only use FireWire for my DV camcorder and that isn't something I leave connected every day. As much as I love FireWire, we're in a USB 2.0 world now.
What do people connect with the FireWire port on their Cinema displays? Hard Disks?
Why not? A lot of Mac users have just as many Firewire devices as USB devices...and this includes the mouse and keyboard.
It would be a sad, sad day if Apple dropped Firewire.
But they won't...I just wanted to paint an impossible future.
I remember before FW 800 came out that Apple was already ahead on fw 1600 which was probably a rumor, but FW is still a great pro port option. I think the problem was Serial ATA connections, and connectors are faster and could step in where FW was headed.
Originally posted by Xool
I think it is more likely that Apple will drop the FireWire ports on the displays but keep FireWire support on the towers themselves. Aside from iSight and my old iPod mini, I'd only use FireWire for my DV camcorder and that isn't something I leave connected every day. As much as I love FireWire, we're in a USB 2.0 world now.
What do people connect with the FireWire port on their Cinema displays? Hard Disks?
Firewire devices, of course! It's kinda pathetic that the Power Mac G5 has only one FireWire 800 port, two FireWire 400 ports (one on front), four USB 2.0 ports (one on front). Especially if your Power Mac is in a tight space, it's hard to access these ports and I never move or touch a computer that is on because of the hard drive.
I use the FW400 jacks on the monitor to connect to my video cam and my iSight, and the one on the front of the machine to boot my PB as a FW HD about once a week (and vice versa to run various checks, etc.).
Please keep the FW and FW800 ports!!!
Apple may come out with a USB version of the iSight...
That's what I heard.
If that's true that's what buried it, if I was a company I wouldn't pay jack to license that.
Originally posted by kim kap sol
If Apple drops Firewire, my name is Placebo and I'm a new PC user. (...and I'm serious about the new PC user part...)
what has he bought one??
Originally posted by ruidoso48
firewire booting is no longer supported in the new stuff
Huh? My MBP's boot menu shows my FireWire drive just fine.
Originally posted by kim kap sol
If Apple drops Firewire, my name is Placebo and I'm a new PC user. (...and I'm serious about the new PC user part...)
I'll pick what's best after the Mac Pros are announced. Stop being a irrational Mac fanboy who only hears what he wants to hear.
Originally posted by Trendannoyer
what has he bought one??
No...I'm just saying I'm serious about becoming a PC user if Apple dropped Firewire.
Firewire is still going to exist, don't worry. It is still faster than USB2, since it doesn't use processor power. Plus, like someone said, so many digital video camera use it.
On topic though, does anyone know how iChat handles multiple iSights?
Originally posted by Xool
On topic though, does anyone know how iChat handles multiple iSights?
I don't think it supports multiple cameras at a time. I could test it out, since I have a built-in iSight, and a craptacular external USB webcam.