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No FireWire in MacBooks

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kolax

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Mar 20, 2007
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How disappointing.

Looks like I'll have to spend the extra bucks on getting the Pro. Really gutted they don't have it. Even on the expensive model!
 
heh now I really have no regrets about buying the old macbook three weeks ago. I didn't care about the graphics though, they are sufficient for me.
 
This is really stupid.

The entry level white MacBook, now at $999 and will still be sold, includes FireWire 400! Where as the new, expensive ones don't.

This is a confusing message to customers.
 
Kilamite said:
This is really stupid.

The entry level white MacBook, now at $999 and will still be sold, includes FireWire 400! Where as the new, expensive ones don't.

This is a confusing message to customers.
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Those white macbooks wont be around long. Once their sold out their gone.
 
Kilamite said:
This is really stupid.

The entry level white MacBook, now at $999 and will still be sold, includes FireWire 400! Where as the new, expensive ones don't.

This is a confusing message to customers.
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I think that will be phased out. By next spring perhaps *poof* gone.
 
wow, i was planning on buying a new macbook to make use of an apogee duet or ensemble, now that they removed firewire, there is no reason for me to even bother buying a mac as I can't use those devices.

I'm sure apogee will be pissed about this too .
 
Removing firewire kinda makes having a 2.4ghz macbook pointless. Removing the connectivity so you cant do more power hungry tasks like recording or mixing. i dont get it
 
Macbook has Ethernet. Firewire 800 has an Ethernet converter. Cease b*tching.
 
The loss of firewire is a bad move. I understand some of the feature differences between the MB and the MBP but not that one.

My wife is in the market for a new notebook in a few months. I had really thought the new MB would be the answer. I have an external firewire drive and so this is a pain.
 
ntrigue said:
Macbook has Ethernet. Firewire 800 has an Ethernet converter. Cease b*tching.
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Where do you get these? How reliable are they?

I've got a FireWire 400 Recording Mixer that I use. Will this converter slow down the response time/loss of quality?
 
Kilamite said:
Where do you get these? How reliable are they?

I've got a FireWire 400 Recording Mixer that I use. Will this converter slow down the response time/loss of quality?
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I would think that it would..As you would need a Firewire 400 to 800 then to Ethernet, that's 2 adapters..

It is stupid that they got rid of Firewire 400. My external hard drives support both Firewire and USB, thank god, but I try to avoid using usb whenever possible, for transferring data.
 
Meh, it's just like the non-inclusion of Blu-Ray.

They figure the majority doesn't use it on MacBook, or at all for that matter.
The minority always gets screwed by the majority.
 
iShater said:
Do most miniDV cameras now support USB?
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No.

You have to use Firewire for capturing DV video. So basically, iMovie is useless on these new Macbooks unless you have one of those crappy hard drive cameras.
 
Its obvious to me that the lack of firewire is to stop pro users from being able to downgrade to the MacBook after making it a really tempting offer.

No miniDV cam that I have heard of uses USB for the video (although many have USB for photos only). However, there are alot of HDD cams out now that just act as USB hard disks.

I think I will still get the new MB, as I only really need a USB for my audio interface for mixing and location recording anyway.
 
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