I'm on the fence about buying i7 because of Firewire limitations. Help

I'm in a dilemma and need some help. I want to buy an i7 because of it's speed and great screen. I have a G5 tower with a 24" Dell LCD. Nice combo but slow next to the new i7. I have a lot of peripherals most USB but I do have a Nikon Scanner I hardly ever use. Its Firewire 400. I would like to only have external drives on a 800 chain but don't know what to do with the few firewire 400 peripherals I have.DO I plug them in only when I use them. This one 800 Firwire port and no 400 ports seems to be a real draw back. I saw a 800 hub online Kramer VS-30FW 3-Port FireWire-800 Repeater/Hub, I believe thats expensive but allows me to expand connections. But plugging in any 400 into the 800 chain ruins the 800 speed. Any ideas? What do I do with the 400's when I want to keep an 800 chain going?

For external storage functions that do not require the fastest speed, use USB 2.0 to take load off the FireWire port. For example, the drive used for Time Machine can be connected using USB 2.0 with no adverse effect. A drive used to archive your completed work probably does not required FireWire 800 speed either; USB 2.0 should be more than adequate. So use that FireWire 800 port for the external drive that serves a function where access speed is critical; don't waste it when speed is not critical.
USB 2.0 may not be as fast as FireWire 800, but it is still reasonably fast.
Connect the FireWire 800 device first. If you have additional FireWire 400 devices that you want to keep connected, get a FireWire 400 hub and daisy-chain it to the back of the FireWire 800 device. Connect your FireWire 400 devices to that hub. That will avoid creating a crazy long daisy chain. It may or may not slow down access speed to the FireWire 800 device. It may depend on the devices being connected. I think you may need to do some tests by timing a large file transfer, to see if just having the FireWire 400 devices connected to the chain (even when they are powered off) actually makes a difference and slows down the FireWire 800 speed.

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Well, depends on a lot of things really.
If you believe you've got the technological aptitude to use such a device (nothing derogatory intended) and you don't mind tinkering under the hood to get the best out of it, I'd go for it.
Just for your info though, the N96 is actually almost 2 years old, and I believe it was plagued by faults and bugs that took literally ages to put right. Since the release of PR1.2 I can't find any "serious" issues as such. Also the N900 is a totally different beast to all the other phones that Nokia have produced in the past Maemo5 (Linux) v Symbian.
No equalizer still, though. But there's an app in the repositories called "Symphonie" that has a good equalizer, but it's still under working development, i.e, It's a little buggy but you can use it.
In reality the smartphone market (not sure I should be calling the N900 as such) is like the PC market. In a lot of cases no sooner have you bought a device than it's outdated. But IMO because of the N900s architecture and O/S, it's a device that could stand the test of time pretty well. The N900 should quite happily run software written for the next device in the range, thanks to the implementation of Qt4 on device. (Just a few tweaks to the app and hey presto).
As for MMS. The official stance on this is that Nokia have no intentions of bringing it natively to the N900. Instead they are working closely with the creator of fMMS so that will integrate seamlessly into the device, so in all intents and purposes fMMS is the official N900 MMS app.
TBH, I think the N900 could be better, but only from a non-techy point of view. They are now available in supermarkets, not an ideal outlet for such a device, but I suppose it increases the sales a bit.
Screen size? I'm happy with it. You could always go the other extreme and get a HTC-HD2 and spend the day walking around with half a sheet of shuttering ply.
To me there's no alternative to the N900. iPhone or Android? No thanks.
Firstly Google's privacy handling record has spooked me to the point that I don't think I could even trust their mobile software. And Android isn't as open as they claim it is, as they've followed Apple's example and employed a "Kill-Switch". Do or install something THEY don't like and *kaputt*. They can remotely disable your device.
I like a lot of the noises that are being made here: maemo.org with regards to the future of the device.

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If you need phones, get phones - you can make calls with an iPad using Skype but it doesn't fit nicely in a pocket like the iPhone does. OTOH, if you are thinking the iPhone because of the great selection of apps, the iPad makes more sense.
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v9v wrote:
Hello, I wanted to find out if you're forecasting enough of the bonus soundtrack CDs for preordering ACE COMBAT ASSAULT HORIZON. I was one of the customers that lossed out on the Dark Souls CE this week so I'm debating another preorder with BestBuy. Could you also tell me if this offer is available in store as well?I I'm interested in the PS3 version.
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