10-17-2008, 06:36 PM
Silencio,
Exactly. I think Apple took a look at the primary user of the Macbook and came to the conclusion that firewire wasn’t used enough to justify its inclusion. Will I miss it when the office gets the new Macbooks? Sure. Is the loss of firewire on Macbooks something that will make me lash out at Apple or buy different machines? Not at all. It’s not nearly enough of an issue to justify that kind of reaction. Besides, I’d rather save that energy for when Apple does something seriously horrendous.
Robert
> I think Apple looks long and hard at what features
> people actually use on their machines and aggressively
> strips out what doesn't get used often enough. It's
> comparatively rare that people plug in more than two
> USB devices to a laptop, so they don't build in more
> ports. If they came to the conclusion that most MacBook
> users don't use the Firewire given the emergence of MPG
> videocams that use USB or the cheap USB external hard
> drives that dominate the market, I guess I can
> understand that. Not that I'm happy about it since I
> too use Firewire very often.
Exactly. I think Apple took a look at the primary user of the Macbook and came to the conclusion that firewire wasn’t used enough to justify its inclusion. Will I miss it when the office gets the new Macbooks? Sure. Is the loss of firewire on Macbooks something that will make me lash out at Apple or buy different machines? Not at all. It’s not nearly enough of an issue to justify that kind of reaction. Besides, I’d rather save that energy for when Apple does something seriously horrendous.
Robert
> I think Apple looks long and hard at what features
> people actually use on their machines and aggressively
> strips out what doesn't get used often enough. It's
> comparatively rare that people plug in more than two
> USB devices to a laptop, so they don't build in more
> ports. If they came to the conclusion that most MacBook
> users don't use the Firewire given the emergence of MPG
> videocams that use USB or the cheap USB external hard
> drives that dominate the market, I guess I can
> understand that. Not that I'm happy about it since I
> too use Firewire very often.