From: Mark Aitken <aitkenmusic@...> >Personally, I have a G5 and I use an >Edirol FA-101 firewire interface. > >http://www.edirol.com/products/info/fa101.html >Why, you ask? My budget was a little shy of yours (~$500) and instead >of buying a sub-par PCI card, I decided to go firewire, so that when I >can finally afford a nice PCI interface, my firewire one won't be >completely useless (I could get a laptop to go with it). There's nothing about Firewire or PCI that makes one inherently more or less expensive than the other. You can find plenty of cheap and high-end examples of both nowadays. -- Nick Batzdorf 818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434

On Dec 2, 2004, at 1:43 AM, Nick Batzdorf wrote: > There's nothing about Firewire or PCI that makes one inherently more > or less expensive than the other. You can find plenty of cheap and > high-end examples of both nowadays. No licensing issues?