Where's The firewire port?!?

I bought a new 13 inch macbook and was shocked to find that it didn't have a firewire port will I need to buy a new video camera and what would you suggest i heard USB cameras have bad quality I'm thinking of getting a flip is the minoHD, the mino or the flip ultra better which is better or i might get a SD card camera is SD better quality then USB or vice versa and what are the price ranges?
And is there possibly a way to get a firewire onto my mac say by getting a USB to firewire connector is there such thing and how much is it? I also have a Nikon coolpix with the crappiest quality ive ever seen would you say this is better than a flip or SD?

bklyn5446 wrote:
I just bought the new aluminum macbook, despite being bummed by the lack of firewire port. I had to replace my old white macbook, and couldn't bear to get the same (the aluminum is so sexy!) But for this reason I bought a new external hard drive that has both USB and FW ports, so I should be able to hook up my FW-only drives to this drive to my macbook (via USB). Haven't tried it yet, but it should work, yes?
I've never tried hooking up other devices in this daisy-chaining way. Has anyone tried this? Getting an external drive with a variety of ports would be cheaper than a 2nd puter.
I doubt it works that way, but I suppose you could try. Most multi-interface bridge controllers connect to the first interface used and then ignore connections to any other interface. Translating is rather beyond the scope of what these things are designed to do. They're generally designed to be hooked up to one host at any given time. Anything other than that would trigger a fault condition.
I remember working on a few FireWire products years ago and looked a bit at the original FW400 spec. The daisy-chaining function is only designed to serve as a repeater. At any given time the device will be either communicating directly with a host/device or serving as a repeater.

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