Bill. Yup, this still applies. You will still want a card with a Texas instruments firewire chipset. Note, in some cases, you may get lucky with the firewire connection on laptops. For example, I have a Lenovo here which has a Texas instruments firewire chipset compatible slot and it works great with all of my Focusrite Firewire devices, and the FW-1884. Regards, Phil Muir Accessibility Training Telephone: US (615) 713-2021 UK +44-1747-821-794 Mobile: UK +44-7968-136-246 E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.accessibilitytraining.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dancing Dots Sent: 06 November 2010 17:44 To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Saffire Pro 40, was RE: Re: M-audio fast track pro Phil wrote: Use both my Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 and Pro 40 under Windows 7 64 bit and they work like a charm! That's great, Phil. In general, is firewire support any simpler under Windows7? That is, do you have to take the same precautions when shopping for your Windows7 DAW to make sure that there will not be firewire incompatibilities as we did for XP? It was not enough just to get an XP machine with a firewire port. That machine needed to have the Texas Instruments flavor of firewire or certain firewire devices simply would not work. Regards, Bill Bill McCann Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992 www.DancingDots.com Tel: [001] 610-783-6692 PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq