IEEE Port

swapan wrote on 10/9/2011, 10:16 AM

My brand new Laptop is a DELL Inspiron 15-R. It has no Express card slot or any PCMCIA slot. The only slot for external use is the Media Card reader. When I puchased the laptop, the Dell expert (chat) advised me that I should purhase one Firewire Express card/34 which will be put in the media card reader to make a firewire port. I did exactly that. Now I find that the express card is wider than the media card slot. So it does not work. The DELL expert was basiclly an idiot. I made a little research and found that the express card require a special express card slot in laptop, which is not available in my laptop. Now my question is how to make a IEEE port in my computer with the media card reader as its only external slot . I am not going to the "Dell experts" again to avoid further mess . Can anyone in the forum give me any suggestion ?

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Eugenia wrote on 10/9/2011, 11:08 AM

There is no way to get an IEEE/Firewire port on these new computers, for use with a firewire camcorder. Neither USB, or express card, or SD card slots provide the kind of firewire support, or third party add-on gadgets with the kind of firewire that camcorders require.

You need to find either another laptop with built-in Firewire, or buy an AVCHD camera that doesn't require Firewire (it works via USB). Personally, I'd go with option No2. Firewire is dead when it comes to video capturing (it still has some good audio usages for audio professionals, but not for video people anymore).