IQ Series and USB?

[carstenw]

I have an ExpressCard and it is incredibly unstable, freezing my Mac regularly when inserted or removed. I have reverted to FW800 which IMO is the most stable and reliable protocol.

 

[GrahamWelland]

I have an ExpressCard and it is incredibly unstable, freezing my Mac regularly when inserted or removed. I have reverted to FW800 which IMO is the most stable and reliable protocol.

:OT: Not all ExpressCards are equal and generally you need to shut them down vs eject etc. The world isn't perfect unfortunately. I use an ExpressCard/34 dual eSata card and it is completely reliable although it does have a shutdown utility - yank it out and yes it'll barf/crash.

However, I would agree that it would be better when true native thunderbolt USB 3/FW800 hubs are available.

 

[carstenw]

I have tried to eject and shutdown the card, but it is only reliable if I do it when the laptop is shut down! Nice in theory, in practice a real pain.

 

[tashley]

From what I know of him (feel free to correct me!) the OP wants to have a MacBookAir for spot checking landscape captures where taking along a heavier/beefier/fw-enabled computer is not worthwhile but a very light USB-only computer might be.


Doug Peterson (e-mail Me)

Absolutely right Doug: part of the IQ attraction for me was exactly this. When in the studio I shoot tethered FW to a mac pro tower but an air in the field would be really useful for checking focus etc...

 

[adamduckworth]

Sort-of related question...

Can you tether a P40+ to a Macbook Air?

P40+ is obviously FW, Macbook Air USB and Thunderbolt. So I presume there's no way?