There are a lot of people like me who are just students or people who can't possibly afford a macbook pro and have in the past used their macbooks for editing video using imovie. Us folks don't have a lot of money but we love the apple platform like crazy. We don't want a super dupa macbook pro, but i feel this firewire port problem is just to push people away from the macbook line and spend more more on the macbook pro. Since even some of the early iMacs, Apple has included the firewire port and it has become a cool way to transfer files.
Firewire was one of the technologies that made Apple really cool. Using firewire on the iPod, i used to put a version of os x on it and boot from it at school and have all my settings all on this drive. It was really like taking a portable image of a mac with you. Firewire allows target mode which is great for transfering files. Say if my friend's mac goes down i can reinstall osx using firewire through my mac.
I am really sad to see firewire go, ever buy an ipod and for the first sync get fedup of 40gbs of data having to go through USB 2. Firewire seems to me to have much faster real world transfer speeds.
I personally have two hard drives that use the firewire standard. Yes i can use usb too, but i would need two cables for that, one for usb and one to power up the drive. Also the speed using USB 2, is not as fast in realtime performance as firewire.
I was actually genuinely going to buy one of these. I have a Mac Mini and old g4 one and i badly need an update. However recently, i feel apple hasn't really been producing anything at the entry level that is worth upgrading too.
I am looking for a portable or a mini not an iMac.
The Mac Minis are shockingly out of date and they have the sheer cheek to charge 499 pounds for the high end model.
I was gonna get a white Macbook, knowing that updates were coming i waited, i would have bought the new Macbook with the high price tag but not without the firewire port. The glossy screen is poor. What happens to pros who want to buy a Macbook but don't want the glossy screen. These oversaturated colour inaccurate screens are just a nightmare. Colour accuracy is so off, it isn't even funny.
Well enough is enough and i sent an email into Steve Jobs. Lets hope that he might come round to seeing this from our point of view.
Dear Mr Jobs,
I would like to give you some feedback from a consumer's point of view regarding your Mac lineup. Firstly I have been an apple user for a long time and have been a big fan of your company and your philosophy. I was eagerly anticipating the introduction of the new MacBooks, I have been in the market for an entry level Mac for quite a long time and it is getting harder and harder to purchase anything in the entry level market at Apple.
Let us take the Mac Mini, now shockingly out of date and neglected for so long. I love this product and touted as the low cost affordable solution, this product has seemed to have been forgotten. Please do not kill this product as with a decent update it would do very well.
The MacBook was finally my upgrade path until i learnt that my Firewire DV Camera, 3 external firewire LaCie Drives and scanner will not work with the new Macbook. I was wondering if you could please ponder/consider to add firewire in future versions of the entry level Macbook. Also the prices in the UK are simply a daylight robbery. I love your platform because of iLife, the stability and security. I won't leave the Mac platform, I will wait till January.
Thank you kindly for your help and your time reading this email,
