Can anyone help me? Just got back from the shop with my new toy thinking that my laptop had a firewire port and it didn't!!! I've bought digital camcorder (canon MV830i) but my computer (laptop)has no firewire port. It also has no PCI slot. Only option I seem to have is the USB ports. The camcorder is mini DV format. Computer does have a DVD writer and it's running Windows XP. How can I transfer the the movies to my PC? What are my options? (Please don't say buy a new computer)!!! HELP - I don't want to have to take my new toy back to the shop.
I bet it does not have a PCI slot, but it must have a PCMCIA slot. Example: http://www.usbgear.com/Firewire_PCMCIA_cardbus/ Buy a PCMCIA Firewire card and you're done.
post the model number of your laptop so someone can look it up..,,i have one i feel is 500 years old (joking)put it this way its old,that has a PCMCIA slot..
A couple of days ago I saw Kofie Annan presenting a laptop for the third world. On that gets power from turning a wheel. They may not have a PCMCIA slot. Did you buy one of those? ;-) Seriously, I also would like to know who on earth is manufacturing laptops without such a slot... And, your model does not allow transfer of video recorded on the tape through USB.
