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Looks like my brother is thinking of buying an XITE-1 as well, but He might want to use it with a laptop. Is there any not to ridiculously expensive ones which support that expresscard well, and have a 17" screen or better?

Call up ADK.

They built a great laptop for me.

I'd avoid off-the-shelf, since they often have issues with firewire chips and bloated overkill setups.
ADK knows how to hot-rod them for DAW usage.

Greg

That looks very nice, Ill have him look at that.

Do they ship to Europe, too?

I don't know.
givem a call or write

katano wrote:Do they ship to Europe, too?

If i am not completly off the hook here i think Scan.uk is the eu dealer for adk.
And these computers-laptops Rock! They even get a custom Bios for the laptops which allows for all the tweaks necassary.And the customer support is fantastic.I ve seen/used a few of their systems and they are great.

Turns out we are going to build a PC after all. silent(ish) i7 930 with SSD+2TB and all the fixings. ready for 64 bit with 12GB RAM

Sorry, going back onto laptops.

For the Xite card for laptops, is a TI firewire chipset required?

auricle wrote:Sorry, going back onto laptops.

For the Xite card for laptops, is a TI firewire chipset required?

It's not required, since the card is PCIe, but I've read of other conflicts with NON TI chipsets.

Will have to track down the information.

Greg

siriusbliss wrote:

auricle wrote:Sorry, going back onto laptops.

For the Xite card for laptops, is a TI firewire chipset required?

It's not required, since the card is PCIe, but I've read of other conflicts with NON TI chipsets.

Will have to track down the information.

Greg

Thanks as always, Greg.

I have a Ricoh chipset in my Dell Precision M4400 and it works like a charm, even though Ricoh was a pain in the a** and not recommended with magma boxes, pci times that was...

I think the problem may be more for guys using firewire interfaces (i.e. RME, etc.), which we are NOT - so we have no worries.

Only concern is that the manufacturer motherboard has some sort of issues with firewire being right next to the PCIe on the main bus, but I doubt that even that is a concern.

Greg

Well if you guys have no trouble then that's cool. I'll go ahead and spring for an interface card.