Is there Firewire in the W520 Laptop? [ Edited ]

[CyranoSP]

Hi There,

I want to buy the Thinkpad W520 Laptop because of the Adobe Premiere Mercury Engnie approved GPU. I need it for film making.

To plug in the camera I need firewire.

> Did I read the specs right, that it has no more Firewire?

> Has snybody experiences with the W520 as editing machine?

Thanks,

Cyrano

[Tiger22 · Accepted solution]

The W520 does have firewire. There's a mini firewire port next to the eSATA/USB port.

[CyranoSP]

Really?

There is nothing about this in the paper:

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/ww/pdf/w520_datasheet.pdf

But I can see the mini firewire port in the gallery pics right to the eSATA plug...hmm, so why don't they mention it? 

Moderator edit: Fixed link.

[bananaman]

Hi CyranoSP!

Looks like an omission. The FireWire port is also listed in the tabook.

Hope this helps!

[udvranto]

There is a 4 port firewire. Which is not so useful as a 6 port one. You may need a firewire expresscard like this one: http://www.siig.com/it-products/firewire/firewire-400/expresscard/firewire-2-port-expresscard.html