Orange Micro OrangeLink FireWire CardBus PC Card ( 70HTL00060 )

Average customer rating: 3.5

Good Legacy Device for Legacy Powermacs
Decent Hardware with a warning
Not USB2!
Works Perfectly Fine
Dangerous and flakey under Windows 2000

Orange Micro OrangeLink FireWire CardBus PC Card ( 70HTL00060 )

Manufacturer: Orange Micro
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00004Y286

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Product Description

Update your Mac PowerBook or PC with the OrangeLink FireWire CardBus PC Card. With this addition to your system, you can take advantage of the latest high performance IEEE-1394 peripherals, including digital cameras and portable VST hard disks.The FireWire high-speed serial I/O technology is particularly great for use with multimedia peripherals such as digital video (DV) camcorders. The OrangeLink supports other FireWire peripherals such as disk drives, and ultra high-resolution scanners, printers and digital still cameras for professional applications. The OrangeLink functions at the maximum IEEE-1394 rated speed of 400 megabits/second (50 megabytes/second). It allows up to 63 devices to be connected in a chain through its two external standard 6 pin ports. It provides power from the host system. The OrangeLink can be used with the provided video editing software to capture and export full size, full motion 720x480 pixels at 30 frames per second.

Customer Reviews:

Good Legacy Device for Legacy Powermacs.......2006-09-26

This is a good legacy device for older PCI Powermacs such as the Performa series or the Beige G3. It offers both USB 1.1 and FireWire 400 on one card. Since most first generation PCI Macintoshs can't run OS X, they don't support USB 2.0 speeds, therefore this device will be just fine for these particular models. I use the Orange Micro OrangeLink Firewire/USB PCI Board in my Powermac 6500.

If one uses MacOS 9.1 or higher, the USB and FireWire extensions should be installed by default, hence the OrangeLink card will work out of the box, essentially. If the extensions are not included/installed, they can also be downloaded from the Apple Website.

To conclude, this is a good, solid-working card which is compatible with a vast array of PCI Powermacs - Definiatly worth the buy.

P.S.: For all who are intending to use this multi-bus device in the 55/6500 series Powermac or TAM, make sure to note that one has to install a Firmware patch, which can be downloaded from the OrangeMicro website, in order to be able to use the card. If this patch is not installed, both USB and FireWire will not be functional, actually, they won't be detected at all. Again, this only applies to the 55/6500/TAM series as these models have compatibility issues with multi-bus cards. It will work without patch in all other listed models

Decent Hardware with a warning.......2005-07-30

I really like the card giving me extra USB and firewire ports however it seems OrangeMicro may be out of bus. So future support for these cards could be limited.. Just a word of warning.

Not USB2!.......2005-03-29

Make sure you note that this is a USB and not a USB2 card. If that's what you're looking for, you're in good shape.

Works Perfectly Fine.......2001-02-14

I haven't had a single problem with this card; I am using it under Mac OS 9.1 right now, and plan on upgrading to OS X when the final release happens in March. The software included has caused me no problems and the card works fine for everything I have used it for. I currently have a printer hooked up to it (HP DeskJet) through USB, as well as a Gravis GamePad, and I have used the Firewire interface with a Canon DV Camcorder. All work fine.

Dangerous and flakey under Windows 2000.......2001-01-27

This product is dangerous and flakey under several instances of Windows 2000 and on different machines. The card is virtually unsupported, current drivers for Windows 2000 Professional are unavailable, there's not even an old version available for download.

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