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HomeInput/Output DevicesUSB & Firewire ConnectivityFirewire Connectivity Devices2PORT Firewire 800 EXPRESSCARD34 Mac Osx 10.5+ Windows |
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11 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Firewire 800 Express Card 34 Mac OSX Leopard Dec 16, 2008
By Craig C. Benepe
"fabricman"
I purchased this express card to use with my new (late 2008) MacBook Pro 15" Solid Aluminum body. The card is NOT compatible with my MacBook Pro. I did call Sonnet tech support to get advice and they confirmed that this card will not work with the new MacBooks and that they are working on developing a new card that will be compatible.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Works great with MacBook Pro! Nov 03, 2009
By Artist Robert
I confirmed with Sonnet that the current Pro version of the FireWire 800 card is 100% compatible with all MacBook Pros (with Expresscard slot). The card works rock solid in my unibody MacBook Pro. The Sonnet Pro card uses a high-performance version of the TI chip which gives it 40% faster write performance (to FireWire 800 hard drives) than other cards or than Sonnet's discontinued card. I verified the performance on the Sonnet web site using the card to a LaCie 2Big in RAID 0. I was surprised to learn that FireWire 800 performance varies so much by manufacturer. Sonnet is the best!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Card they actually ship is not the one pictured Dec 03, 2009
By JGuna
"jamila"
On the picture they show the new card manufactured by sonnet. (Note it has the blue label on the picture.) However, they ([...]) ships the old card (with the orange label) that is not compatible with several macbook pros. Make sure to purchase from a vendor that actually sells the product pictured.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Outstanding product! Mar 16, 2009
By J. Chaffin
Got this card so my wife could remove the FW cable on the right-hand side of her MBP (MacBookPro4,1 model). It was always in the way of her mouse over there. ;-) This card couldn't be easier/better. Plug it in, plug in the FW cable, that's it! No drivers, it's a Mac, after all. ;-) Plus, she now has two FW800 ports instead of one! :-)
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Decent, not everything I wanted Oct 22, 2009
By P. Kim
This is more of an issue with Apple's PC Express slots, as anything that slides into there just doesn't stay in. When you put a card in the slot, it clicks in, but even a slight tug will make it slide out. It's amazing they got away with designing it like this.
The device itself works well--it sticks out about almost a couple inches so there's no way to store it with the laptop all the time, you should take it out or it will probably break.
Aside from slipping out a lot, it seems to have worked fine over the last month. My major gripe however, is that unlike the other bus-powered firewire ports in the laptop, this device does not power my portable firewire drives. I do a lot of video transferring and editing, and even with my small LaCie portable drives that are bus-powered with the regular ports, it won't power them.
So in some ways, it defeats the reason why I got this device, so that I could transfer material via firewire 800 on the road when I don't have power.
For those reasons, and the price, I don't think I could recommend it. At $50 or so, perhaps.
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