10-17-2008, 10:39 PM
richorlin wrote:
[quote=Paul F.]
And deleting features from the MacBook is going to entice new users... how, exactly?
Because new users never used firewire on a Mac before so they're not missing anything.
Besides, most external drives also have USB also. I was able to use Superduper! to clone my new MAcbook to an external portable drive.
Everyone should just get over it. If you don't like the fact that the new Macbooks are missing firewire, then don't buy one, or buy the previous model at a big discount. The majority of Mac users who absolutely need firewire for their pro video and audio equipment are probably already using a Macbook Pro.
Even professionals do not "need" FireWire. The question then becomes, why would anyone use FireWire? Answer: it's demonstrably better. But if you don't know it's better you won't, as the old saying goes, "ask for it by name." This is why the teeming masses buy USB devices and Windows computers, because "it's OK and does the same thing." And the rest of us shake our heads and wonder, "why don't they understand?" Paul F. is exactly right.
Keeping users in the dark and saying all is well cuts off FUTURE buyers who, by their non-exposure, will have less of a reason to expect better from Apple.
There is nothing to "get over" here unless you don't give a crap about taking an interest in making the Mac platform as viable and as practically attractive as it can be.
It's not as if we're whining about some super-tweaky, pie-in-the-sky, ultra high-end protocol that costs a lot of money to implement. FireWire is proven, extremely versatile in ways USB by design never can be and might add at most $50 at the retail level to a new Mac.