No Firewire on newer DV7 models?

I'm looking to get a new laptop, and I'm especially looking at HP laptops. Due to requiring a large screen I'm looking at the DV7 series. From what I've seen these come in two styles - the slightly older black ones with the swirl patterns and the newer, brushed aluminium models. I'm leaning towards one of the aluminium ones (partly because I like the idea of having switchable graphics and, as far as I can tell, only the aluminium ones have this) - however, none of them seem to have a firewire port. This is an essential feature for me, because I'll need to use the laptop to capture footage from my video camera, or even record directly to the hard drive, and would like to be able to use it to set up the camera using software such as Adobe OnLocation.
So do none of these laptops have firewire? Any reason why not? I was looking for alternative solutions, such as an eSATA-Firewire adapter, but I'm not sure if that would be a viable option because the video software may not detect the camera through that. What are my options (if any)?

Yeah, I just spoke to a retailer and they said that newer laptops do not have firewire in favour of eSATA and USB 3.0. Great for removable drives, bad for video cameras (at least for professional ones - USB might be useful for accessing memory cards on cameras, but when it comes to using a computer in the studio, with software such as Adobe OnLocation, even the latest video cameras still have firewire for that).
Unfortunately it seems that the aluminium DV7s don't have an expresscard slot either, so I'm currently looking for USB-Firewire or eSATA-Firewire adapters instead. Or I might just go with a different model of laptop.

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