Possible way to get Firewire on new MacBooks

[AllGold]

Robert, given the considerable amount of bitching and moaning over the deletion of the port, I'd disagree.

[Sam3]

I doubt if the costs were great. The previous Macbook already had the port, the chipset is pretty small, research and development costs were covered a long time ago.

I also disagree that it wouldn't impact the average user. I may concede that it may not impact new computer users, but veteran Joe the Plumber users looking to upgrade will be affected. People keep video gear longer than computers, the average Joe has a Firewire camcorder, now they won't be able to get video into the computer.

Oh, but Dell does offer Firewire on their $699 computer, Pinnacle Studio or Adobe Premiere are not that bad as video editing apps. Sale goes to Dell. Oh, by the way, the Dell also has a card reader.

I still think that it was a bad idea to get rid of something that you've already had on the machine. Especially when it's your own technology.

[Robert M]

All, Sam,

You're looking at the moaning of vocal minority. That and again, I suspect the average user of _macbook_ notebooks aren't going to be impacted by the removal. Look at the target market and the bigger picture instead of the limited view of a vocal minority. I'm this is what Appledid when the designed the new machines, along with the costs involved.

Robert

[AllGold]

Maybe inside Steve Jobs' reality distortion field it makes sense. But it doesn't make sense to me.

We're talking about reducing production costs by about $10 at most. It sounds like a number of people would be willing to pay 10 times that to get a Firewire port. I just don't see a good reason. All the cheap PC laptops I have seen have Firewire and they can't even use it for TDM.

[Racer X]

FW over ethernet has been around for years. I got an ethernet to FW adapter with one of my D-HSV cameras back in 2003.