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Poll: do you use Firewire 400 on your MacBook?

Did you use Firewire with your MacBook?

  • Yes

    Votes: 67 67.7%

  • No

    Votes: 30 30.3%

  • Yes, but the new MacBook's will have the RJ45 Firewire port so I'm not concered

    Votes: 2 2.0%
  • Total voters
    99
richthomas said:
based on the recent spy pics of the MacBook case in the Higher Quality MacBook Pro Case Photos thread its safe to say that Apple is removing Firewire completely from the MacBook line.

so i and im guessing a lot of other users on MacRumors are interested in if users actually used the port. so did you use Firewire with your MacBook?
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I use it with my camcorder. I really hope they don't ditch FW from the MacBook line.
 
I use FW 800 on my G5, and FW 400 on my 12" PowerBook G4 and even G3 Pismo.

Was looking at a PowerBook replacement that was small but need FireWire for my various devices.

I use target disk mode a lot as well.
 
i cant even vote cos i dont have a MacBook. but im planning on buying one soon and will be sad to see Firewire go on it but i will have Firewire on my desktop.
 
I think it's a FW port, not a USB (what I've been saying in old post for months now sinc they released the MBA).

I don't use the Ethernet port, but I do use the FW one.

If you want Ethernet, use Apple's Ethernet to USB adapter.
 
I use it constantly for both my FW Drive and Soundcard!!!
I will be VERY disappointed if Apple remove a FW port all-together !

Fingers crossed for FW800 or Ethernet/Firewire hybrid!
Surely there will be an adaptor to use FW400 devices with the new RJ45 FW Port right?!!?!!?!
 
Even if you haven't ever used it, you want it to be there, for Target Disk mode, in case something goes wrong.

Unless the HD is in an easily removable module that can be removed without tools...
 
YES I use it all the time. And I don't want/can't afford/wouldn't buy if I could afford anyway a Macbook Pro.

This ****ing sucks.
 
All the time.

Even my first laptop in 2001 (when I began to study), which wasn't even a Mac had to have a Firewire (6-pin) port, before I actually decided to buy it (and I sold it three years later for just 50 quid).

My iBook used Firewire a lot for editing purposes (yes, I did edit on my 12" iBook, even when being used to a two 19" display arrangement), then back ups, and now as a server with all the data on an external Firewire drive.

My iMac is connected to four Firewire drives (400 & 800) all the time,
and even my MacBook has some experience with Firewire.

How much does it cost anyway to add a Firewire port and controller to such a small form factor notebook?

And it can't be the size of the port, the Ethernet port is bigger.
 
I dont have a macbook but im looking to get one when they are released and i hope they dont get rid of firewire cause i use it all the time on my iMac and would definitely need it if i got a macbook. Not having firewire will force me to get a macbook pro and i think that might be what apple is trying to do.
 
I currently don't use it. But I'm going to get a firewire Drobo to take advantage of it.

I think apple is doing this to separate the Pro's from the Average joes. They are losing pro advantages. Such as Aluminum, Perhaps Graphics, LED screen and they certainly don't want people buying macbooks. This is there separation.
 
Techguy172 said:
I currently don't use it. But I'm going to get a firewire Drobo to take advantage of it.

I think apple is doing this to separate the Pro's from the Average joes. They are losing pro advantages. Such as Aluminum, Perhaps Graphics, LED screen and they certainly don't want people buying macbooks. This is there separation.
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So wanting firewire to be able to use Time Machine to back up to an external drive means I need a "Pro" machine? :confused:

Sorry, I just don't buy it.
 
Yes

Yep, I use it for my backup hard drive and plan on using it whenever I buy a HD video camera. But odds are I will have updated to the pro by then ;)

Overall though, I will be disappointed if they remove the firewire from macbooks. Seems like they may finally get a respectable dedicated video card and durable case, and then apple handicaps it in some other featureset. We shall see tomorrow though!
 
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