I have been reading and researching about getting 5.1 output on macs and have been on the verge of finally ordering a Firewave for my new penryn MBP. But upon stopping by Griffin's website, I noticed they had removed the Firewave from their mac products page. A quick google search took me to the Firewave page here: http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/firewave
And on the page, it says the firewave is on close out and the price reduced to $29.99. Another quick glance at Firewave on Amazon also shows it as discontinued. Now, I wonder why? There always seems to be a decent amount of attention and interest (and a whole lot of confusion I might add) concerning 5.1 sound on Macs whenever I search for the topic on various Apple site forums, so why discontinue a product? Does this mean they might be coming out with a new external 5.1 device? I really can't tell, so I was wondering might have any insight on this.
Anyway, I will be ordering my firewave, since you really can't beat $30! I just hope I can enable EAX on my PC games in bootcamp, as that is the main reason I have been looking at the Firewave in the first place.
And on the page, it says the firewave is on close out and the price reduced to $29.99. Another quick glance at Firewave on Amazon also shows it as discontinued. Now, I wonder why? There always seems to be a decent amount of attention and interest (and a whole lot of confusion I might add) concerning 5.1 sound on Macs whenever I search for the topic on various Apple site forums, so why discontinue a product? Does this mean they might be coming out with a new external 5.1 device? I really can't tell, so I was wondering might have any insight on this.
Anyway, I will be ordering my firewave, since you really can't beat $30! I just hope I can enable EAX on my PC games in bootcamp, as that is the main reason I have been looking at the Firewave in the first place.
