eSATA on new MBP?

[joefinan]

I only discovered eSATA yesterday when I was looking for a new external hard drive. For a small fortune I can get a 500GB drive with FW 400, 800 and eSATA - is it worth paying the extra?

Has anyone heard rumours of the new MBP supporting eSATA (they've had FW 800 for yonks so would be a natural step-up...).

 

[Eidorian]

It's possible but you can get an ExpressCard for it.

 

[joefinan]

I'm a bit of a luddite - could you explain please?

 

[Eidorian]

http://www.barefeats.com/hard71.html

http://www.macworld.com/article/57957/2007/05/nitroav.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expresscard

Google turned this up in a few seconds

 

[panzer06]

I only discovered eSATA yesterday when I was looking for a new external hard drive. For a small fortune I can get a 500GB drive with FW 400, 800 and eSATA - is it worth paying the extra?

Has anyone heard rumours of the new MBP supporting eSATA (they've had FW 800 for yonks so would be a natural step-up...).

The MacPro has spare sata ports on the motherboard you can extend outside the case so I opened up my SR MBP to see if there was something I could hack that would give me an external eSATA capability that is bootable. The expresscard option is nice but does not support booting OS X or Windows. I wanted a way to boot Windows on a separate external drive for my MBP but so far no joy.

Cheers,