That is not very clear. What about current 'products' - are they covered. I am of course using a MacBook Pro 13" running Win 7. But would be nice not to be limited to that.
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Hahaha, I love your passion for Macs. As you know another diehard here as well. But I have been very unhappy with Apple on the transition issue. Nothing new here with Apple, they never been gentle when it comes to changing to a new hardware. I used FW from the day one and been very happy with it (minus a first generation hardware)
FW on Mac is solid. Thunderbolt is a great new technology with an awesome future. Simply converting from it to FW is not a problem at all. But big trouble and difference between the two is that FW had some 30W and Thunderbolt just a few watts in output capability, I believe it is 7W.
That renders some of FW hardware useless or possible to use only with external power supply or through powered repeaters. In my case almost rendered my $ 50K Phase One photo digital back useless when used with Mac Book Pro through FW, which is almost exclusive use when shooting on location. When they released new MB Pros, there were no adapters. Than six months later they released adapters just to discover it still does not work. After some time to learn, solution was to have battery in the digital back, what previously was not required with FW.
For many audio and photo professionals and early adopters that was disaster. It took too long to have an adapter released and than to learn about the change. So if you are converting from Thunderbolt to FW or USB 2 or 3, make sure your hardware is self powered and not through the Thunderbolt. That is the source of 99% of problems with hardware used in such a manner.
On another note, here are some really great new products from Corning that might be interesting for some that need to have hardware on a great distance from computer. A converters from Thunderbolt to fibre optic with almost unlimited length:
Review: Corning's Thunderbolt Optical Cable
Thunderbolt™ - Optical Cables by Corning
They make the the same for USB 3 as well:
USB 3.Optical™ - Optical Cables by Corning
After Clio released their update for FW driver last year June I have had much better success and stability on multiple computer
Download | Audiomatica Srl
So I recommend giving that a try if you have not yet.
With older driver I had all of the same issues also and especially continuous sine / FFT testing would always fail after a minute or two.
Download | Audiomatica Srl
So I recommend giving that a try if you have not yet.
With older driver I had all of the same issues also and especially continuous sine / FFT testing would always fail after a minute or two.
Did anyone see this
Clio Pocket | Audiomatica Srl
It's a miniature measurement system. But I can't find any user manual to see what it really is. Is it a USB device or still Firewire ?
Guys going to the AES should check it out. Wonder how much it costs.
Clio Pocket | Audiomatica Srl
It's a miniature measurement system. But I can't find any user manual to see what it really is. Is it a USB device or still Firewire ?
Guys going to the AES should check it out. Wonder how much it costs.
One of its advantages. Fizzmeasure is good at what it does, measuring FR (despite what they say it does not do well with impedance)
Clio does much, much more, althou it is disadvantaged by windoz (which in my experience is a 3rd rate OS)
dave
Thunderbolt isn't just MAC
I have a Thinkpad W540 and it has a thunderbolt connector on it. I also bought it loaded with W7 64bit. If you stop shopping for laptops at best buy and you can get any OS you want preloaded. I would argue the stetement that Apple is the best quality. They have the best industrial design, but they don't hold up to abuse as well as some business class PC's.
I have the older PCI/USB Clio 8.5. I love the software and the capabilites, but I hate that I have to have a desktop to run it.
I too am anticipating the Clio Pocket, but it appears to be severely crippled compared to the full Clio FW 11 and for that matter my old 8.5.
I was looking at the "NEW" (LOL) Linear X LX500 but the designer is a angy old man who hates microsoft and blames them for all of his own shortcomings. They don't support 64 bit at all and their design software hasn't had a new version since the 90's. Quite possibly the worst businessman ever. He doesn't get that he could charge more and people would gladly pay it to have a more modern functional system. Everyone on his own forum is begging him to make updates that they want to pay for and his response is always who would pay for that?
I have a Thinkpad W540 and it has a thunderbolt connector on it. I also bought it loaded with W7 64bit. If you stop shopping for laptops at best buy and you can get any OS you want preloaded. I would argue the stetement that Apple is the best quality. They have the best industrial design, but they don't hold up to abuse as well as some business class PC's.
I have the older PCI/USB Clio 8.5. I love the software and the capabilites, but I hate that I have to have a desktop to run it.
I too am anticipating the Clio Pocket, but it appears to be severely crippled compared to the full Clio FW 11 and for that matter my old 8.5.
I was looking at the "NEW" (LOL) Linear X LX500 but the designer is a angy old man who hates microsoft and blames them for all of his own shortcomings. They don't support 64 bit at all and their design software hasn't had a new version since the 90's. Quite possibly the worst businessman ever. He doesn't get that he could charge more and people would gladly pay it to have a more modern functional system. Everyone on his own forum is begging him to make updates that they want to pay for and his response is always who would pay for that?
No please
dont plug in
You will ruin the hardware.
It is not just like physical jacks connectios diferents.
Everything is different, format of datas, power can be differant,
even cable it self.
Firewire is full duplex and much faster format than classic usb
Rather exchange lap top then go back to the usb...
You have good range of 13in apple laptops and You can have OSX and WIN
even LYN...
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cheers
AR thanks for that information. I am using thunderbolt to FW for the i2S interface and didnt spot some temperature issues, but I will have in mind that for some future devices... Thanks. I am not satisfied with the after motorola macs.I hate - plastic knobs, overheating mostly of the Nvidias, Itunes-controled-everything, nothing really new with huge HD space used, I can continue... BUT almost every WIN laptop based looks old like 10 years used, just after 4-5 months... Except maybe those costs more than MBPs
And - battery issue. At win laps they are limited to 1 to 1.5 year- Status
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