Anyone using the new 27 in Imacs????

Rob Sackyta

• 11. März 2013 19:45

If you are how is the thing run.

We need 2 new units for the studio and cant find the older ones with the firewire 800 ports new anymore.

I hate the fact that apple didn't include the FW800 on this generation.

Thunderbolt isn't where it needs to be for power users yet.

Thanks

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  Clemens Schwaighofer

  • 12. März 2013 04:17

  get a Thunderbolt to FW adapter. Or get one of the external PCI cases with a FW card inside.
  
  I know it sucks, but with Apple it is their way or "get lost"

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  Drew Altdo

  • 12. März 2013 12:50

  What do you need the Firewire Port for specifically?

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  Terence Patrick

  • 13. März 2013 03:07

  Rob372, if you are in L.A., I would love to sell you my 27" 2.8ghz i7 quad core iMac that has a FW800 port.

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  Andrew Holloway

  • 13. März 2013 07:37

  I used one of the new 27" iMacs for a shoot just this morning. With a thunderbolt-to-FW adapter, it works just fine. Obviously, a FW-connected Phase One DB can't get power through a thunderbolt port, so you need to keep a couple freshly-charged batteries on set. My favorite thing so far about the new machines, they have a nicer video card than anything available for the towers.
  
  My personal opinion; firewire sucks out loud. It's fussy, it's fickle, and it likes to embarrass you in front of clients. Fully 95% of the problems I've had with the P45+ back are FW cable-related. And under some circumstances, an accidentally-disconnected DB will remain stubbornly un-connected to the Mac until you reboot. I'm no Mac fanboy, but I will miss FW about as much as I miss the SCSI interface on the PowerPhase.
  
  All this having been said, the Apple store currently has a refurbished mid-2011 iMac 27-inch 3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 available for $1789. Add $169 for Applecare and you should be good to go.

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