Firewire on sub £600

[Bane]

Been looking at Dell and HP, and I was surprised Firewire wasn't on any of the models (that I looked at).

Is Firewire still fitted on medium priced laptops? Looking at Core i5 and AMD Turion II and Phenom 2 at 2.5GHz+ for £600

 

[haz_pro]

I have the "mini" firewire port, (dont know real name) on my HP laptop from 3 years ago, it cost me 500 pounds at the time.

I cant say i have ever used it though, maybe this is why they have stopped putting them on as a lot of people may be like me and not use it.

EDIT: come to think of it i had used it for my video camera, i would have been out of luck without the firewire in that case!

 

[metachi]

check out their outlets, get the business models and they all comes with 3 years warranty.

i've a dell latitude e6410 core i5 which comes with nvidia gfx, firewire, esata port and additional docking station.

 

[POB]

As another option would an ExpressCard do the trick?

Might give you extra choice of regular laptops.

 

[Bane]

I forgot about this thread.

I suppose a PCMCIA card could be used, but not looked at prices yet. So it might work out cheaper, and simplier in the long run, to increase budget for base machine.