Me too. I used it once to take a pic of myself for an avatar. Never used it again. For me, a completely useless feature on a MBP, kind of like the multi-touch trackpad. Apparently though, Adobe has somehow integrated multi-touch into Photoshop CS4, so I hear. Might be nothing more than a rumor. Still, it just seems like a novelty that isn't very practical - I'd certainly never use it.
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Me too. I used it once to take a pic of myself for an avatar. Never used it again. For me, a completely useless feature on a MBP, kind of like the multi-touch trackpad. Apparently though, Adobe has somehow integrated multi-touch into Photoshop CS4, so I hear. Might be nothing more than a rumor. Still, it just seems like a novelty that isn't very practical - I'd certainly never use it.
Agreed. Half is a stretch. Several hundred, a few hundred, less, sure, but not half.
You would think. But I believe the chart in the post right above yours explains it all!
Yeah your right! I had to undo a setting I had to see that! Unreal! You have a good one and let's hope the new generation of Macbooks are awesome!
That fits. Appears to be the trend. MBA, iPhone 3g and new Touch all have the rounded 'weevil-wobble' look.
Did you miss my post linking to the HP that was $1300 less than the 17" MBP with sightly better specs?
I use firewire to connect,my audio recorder (it then becomes an external HDD and CF-card reader/CF-stick), for my "Extreme" CF reader, and for use with an external scratch disk and back-up disks, not to mention an audio interface. Not all at the same time, though, ha ha!
I also use USB, though mostly for my DAP and a 3G USB-stick.
In my Expresscard slot I have an sdhc-card reader.
Same here, and to make matters worse, they had to make a taller "forehead" to add this consumer crappola. Utterly unnecessary.
As a follow up to my post yesterday about ingram micro, per my friend who was up there for deliveries, he saw that they got about 100 skids of apple laptops today, about 54 or so laptops per skid.
No particulars, he's not involved in that process but this is what he saw. No one talks about the stuff, I'm sure due to apple's policies. Also he heard that the staff at IM is to work tomorrow (saturday) which is not normal for deliveries.
Just fyi.
No particulars, he's not involved in that process but this is what he saw. No one talks about the stuff, I'm sure due to apple's policies. Also he heard that the staff at IM is to work tomorrow (saturday) which is not normal for deliveries.
Just fyi.
Funny that you mention the "forehead" - I thought that was the ugliest thing about the MBP when it first came out. It looked like they shoved it in there with absolutely no forethought. They reduced the forehead a bit on the latest revision though, the one I have. It looks a bit more even. Still, i miss the nice thin screen bezel on my old TiBook. Strange how an older computer had a less bulky appearance than a new one, from a company that likes to tout its "thinner" computers all the time
Whatever newbie reposted that should be ashamed of himself.
That image was created long before the current round of rumors, and if memory serves correctly it was also disproved due to a few errors involving camera angles and such.
Seems like an awful lot of space to waste in order to get those rounded corners.
No, I'd prefer this:
Funny that you mention the "forehead" - I thought that was the ugliest thing about the MBP when it first came out. It looked like they shoved it in there with absolutely no forethought. They reduced the forehead a bit on the latest revision though, the one I have. It looks a bit more even. Still, i miss the nice thin screen bezel on my old TiBook. Strange how an older computer had a less bulky appearance than a new one, from a company that likes to tout its "thinner" computers all the time
Hehe, Indeed
"other bad redesigns"? You mean other design choices that you personally don't care for?
OK, um... first off, here's how 'professional' the FW on Macs is: To save a few extra nickels, Apple switched from a Texas Instruments chipset to an Agere chipset. For audio professionals who use a firewire audio interface, this means that Macs just went from "pro" to "Toys'R'Us".
Second, since when are professionals too good for USB? External hard disks aren't everything. In my profession (audio recording, editing & engineering) I need tons of USB ports. First there's the copy protecion dongles that come with many professional apps, so there goes one or two USB ports. Then you need USB peripherals - in my case a decent keyboard with numerical keys, a good mouse, a MIDI keyboard and a MIDI control surface. There goes another 4 USB ports. For a graphic designer it might be a Wacom tablet and/or a 3D space navigator.
When I come to work I stick my Dell laptop in a docking station and voilá, everything's already neatly plugged in (30" monitor, keyboard, Ethernet, mouse, MIDI keyboard & controllers, USB dongles, external FW disk, everything). I wouldn't mind switching to a Mac Pro, but this would make my life a whole lot more cumbersome because rather than do one thing (dock the computer and start working), I'd have to plug in the monitor cable, the power cable, the Ethernet cable, the mouse cable, the iPhone dock, the keyboard cable, the MIDI keyboard cable... bleh. Sure, I could get a USB hub but it's just not the same, and my desk would still look like a junk yard.
They switched back to the TI chipset in the Penryn MBP - the current MBPs are not using the Agere chipset.
I thought that was still the case too. But apparently they switched back to TI's.
There are more to firewire than external harddiscs.
Again, noone is saying that USB is not useable for a pro. We are saying that only a "common" consumer (I don't mean to offense, I just mean someone who doesn't really have any particular needs) would try to argue that it would be good to nix firewire and replace them with USB.
Again, there are many other audio professionels who also use USB, but that doesn't mean we don't need firewire.
Docking stations can be cool. But then again, some of us audio people don't work all the time tied to a desk.
Phew... well that's one problem down, then.
I thought the discussion was more about the MBP not having enough USB ports, but yeah -- of course they shouldn't omit FW in favor of more USB ports, they should have both. If Dell is able to give you 4 USB ports on a laptop and still provide Firewire (along with other handy stuff like built-in 3G broadband, card readers etc) the supposed geniuses at Apple should have no problem doing the same. But as usual, form is given precedence over function.
No, but it's not like you would lose out on anything if there was an optional docking station for those who need it. Apple likes to brag about how neat your desktop will be when you go Mac. Like in this picture. But in the case of the MacBook Pro vs my Dell Precision notebook with the D/View+D/Port combo, it's my desk that looks tidy and the MBP desk that looks like a mess.
Oh, like that. Well, then I agree. Many of us were just responding to people responding to the rumour that the new one might have just one FW port. Some of those posters were saying that it didn't matter if the nixing of the FW400 port meant another USB port.
I wholeheartedly agree that the MBP over all lacks ports.
Again I agree. I thought thought you implied that it would be alright to nix ports if only one could buy a docking station.
I simply can't wait to splash out on one of the new mac portables. I've been ready since october 2007, waiting for some significant changes all the time. Finally it looks like it is going to happen. Go! Steve & co. Go!