[LAU] Firewire linuxaudio laptops, recomendations?

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, dmotd wrote:

> have started searching for a replacement. Unfortunately 
> the marketplace has substantially changed since my last 
> search and in this period it seems that both firewire 
> (400+800) and pc expansion ports have been for the most 
> part eradicated. As an owner and constant user of a half 
> decent firewire interface (fa-101), and with a rather 
> constrained budget, i would hate to have to ditch it.

I think you can still get laptops (e.g. ThinkPads) with 
ExpressCard[1] slots... and that there are also 
Firewire/ExpressCard interfaces.  Have you checked in to 
those?

-gabriel

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpressCard