<div dir="ltr">I have been noticing the trend of laptop manufactures having no expresscard slots nor firewire ports. Also in the last few years they have only been offering a limited amount of USB 3 ports, however since USB 3 has become pretty standard there hasn't been any audio-interface manufactures producing anything utilizing USB 3. In the last few months that may have changed, but I have been wondering what people have been doing in this situation and when we'll see at least USB 3 supported properly. <br><br>As for myself I have been picking up older high-end laptops that have at least an expresscard slot, firewire port, or a base station that adds them, i.e. Lenovo X201, which were pretty common and can sport an i5 CPU, handles 8 GB of RAM, and has an expresscard slot to add a firewire port. I use a base station to add more USB 2 ports. It has one USB 3 port. <br><br>I keep seeing firewire audio-interfaces being sold new along with USB 2 ones. I am at a loss to explain what computers people are using for these that are new. <br> <br>--sean </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Oded Ben-Tal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oded@ccrma.stanford.edu" target="_blank">oded@ccrma.stanford.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
I am wondering if anyone knows what the future of good soundcards looks like. At<br>
the moment I rely on expresscard connectors (RME + an old focusrite using<br>
firewire). I started realising that most new laptops don't have expresscard<br>
slots any longer so this option seems to be closing. Does anyone have any<br>
experience getting sound working through a USB<-expresscard adapter? Or should I<br>
hurry up and buy a new laptop (my current one is 7 YO) before I ran out of<br>
options? Would new soundcards being developed use USB3? Or?<br>
thanks<br>
Oded<br>
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