I had a question to go along with this thread:
I'm going to do some traveling and was looking for a mobile FW interface (buss powered) for my Macbook Pro with Intel chipsets. If you guys have any feedback about these, or any others I should take a look at, please help me out. And has anyone used buss powered interfaces before? How quick is the battery drain?
http://www.zzounds.com/item--TCEKONNECT8
http://www.zzounds.com/item--MTUULTRALITE
I was leaning more towards the TCE because of the price. I also thought about the RME Hammerfall set-up but the cardbus doesn't provide power to the I/O plus it doesn't use FW protocal, its RME proprietary. Not really into that.