On 4/29/2013 4:41 PM, Trevor wrote:
Have a problem with my FW only MOTU already, and that was $1k plus :-(
My Mackie 1200F is a great product, and I expect to be able to keep a
computer running WinXP for quite some time yet. It may not be the same
computer, but XP has worked through three generations of computers here
already so I guess it isn't all that fussy. I won't be able to run Pro
Tools on it, but then I don't have, nor anticipate in the future, a real
need to do that.
. . . new customers will be buying a new MacBook Pro to go along with it,
and that has Firewire 800. Their next generation of hardware will
incorporate control as well as audio data
And will that overload FW400 thus making backward compatibilty impossible. I
doubt it
I doubt it, too, as far as audio. But users and tech support people get
a little uneasy when they have to connect two flavors of an interface.
You'd probably be surprised at how much it costs to tell a customer "You
need to get this special cable." And of course everyone knows that
Firewire 800 is faster, so it MUST be better. That makes the marketing
department happy.
..
No argument there. The problem is it gets expensive when your computer can't
be fixed and you have to replace your audio hardware as well :-(
And it especially hurts when you don't realize until after you've bought
the new computer that your old audio hardware is incompatible.
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