10-17-2008, 01:59 PM
3d wrote: In the 6 years i've owned a 17" powerbook with firewire. I've used the firewire port exactly zero times. My OWC external HD i use for backups has USB2.
It's a different story for all of us. Me, I use FireWire every single day for one reason or another.
1) Compact flash card reader, because it's really fast, for my digital still camera images.
2) Dozens of firewire based hard drive enclosures. I never bought the USB/FireWire combo versions, because FireWire was, and still is, so much better.
3) FireWire target disk mode.
4) Migration Assistant through the FireWire port.
5) Importing DV video footage from my Canon DV camera.
6) WebieTech FireWire DriveDock.
If Apple pulls FireWire out of all of it's consumer level machines, I'm going to be a) upset, and b) forced to move to different technology, namely USB2, for all of these types of peripherals. It won't be the end of the world.
So, the new MacBook isn't for me. Oh well, it looks cool anyway.
Jeff