If steve jobs thought you needed an eSata port, he would have put one on there... I mean, he knows all and sees all...if you don't like his overpriced pieces of crippled tardicaca -- don't buy them.
Yeah I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that iMacs already have FireWire 800 which has a powered bus and is fast enough that drives can't actually saturate it.
Because people who aren't too bright really love needing to power all their external devices SEPARATELY. I mean where's the challenge in being able to just plug a drive in and have it power on? That's too easy, we need to make things more difficult.
@Jack Drives can't saturate it!?!? WHAT!?!? Even the cheapest seagate 7200.12 sata drive can do 125 MB\s. One eSATA connector = 300 MB\sec...which just happens to be enough to allow for HD video editing (you need fast storage or else you get dropped frames). FW800 can't do that. Just do the math, idiot.
@HighestRanked1 You can only daisy chain firewire if the end device actually has an in and out port. Some do, some don't -- and with audio and video equipment, it's actually NOT reccommended to daisy chain. But anyways, that's a stupid excuse -- get a friggen USB hub..and with eSATA there are port multipliers. Believe it or not there are also firewire hubs so you can chain devices that don't have an in\out port. Either way your excuse \line of reasoning is BS.
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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If steve jobs thought you needed an eSata port, he would have put one on there... I mean, he knows all and sees all...if you don't like his overpriced pieces of crippled tardicaca -- don't buy them.
@DoctarPeppar
Yeah I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that iMacs already have FireWire 800 which has a powered bus and is fast enough that drives can't actually saturate it.
Because people who aren't too bright really love needing to power all their external devices SEPARATELY. I mean where's the challenge in being able to just plug a drive in and have it power on? That's too easy, we need to make things more difficult.
@Jack
Drives can't saturate it!?!? WHAT!?!?
Even the cheapest seagate 7200.12 sata drive can do 125 MB\s.
One eSATA connector = 300 MB\sec...which just happens to be enough to allow for HD video editing (you need fast storage or else you get dropped frames). FW800 can't do that. Just do the math, idiot.
@Jack
And don't forget, you can daisy chain FireWire. USB can't do that, nor can eSATA.
@HighestRanked1
You can only daisy chain firewire if the end device actually has an in and out port. Some do, some don't -- and with audio and video equipment, it's actually NOT reccommended to daisy chain. But anyways, that's a stupid excuse -- get a friggen USB hub..and with eSATA there are port multipliers. Believe it or not there are also firewire hubs so you can chain devices that don't have an in\out port. Either way your excuse \line of reasoning is BS.