That's what bothers me. It seems to be a huge step backwards in Apple's way of thinking. Is Apple designing consumer laptops to only cater to the lowest common denominator now?? "Consumers don't really edit video, so let's go ahead and take away that feature"? "Only pros want to edit video, and they'll all buy pro equipment"? That's divisive, oversimplified, and what it comes down to is downright insulting.
What I loved about the Mac was how easy it was for the "common man" to do all this stuff that was once only the domain of professionals. Desktop publishing for everyone in an age where you otherwise had to go to a print shop. Graphic design for everyone in an age where you needed lots of high-end PC or Unix equipment. Video editing for everyone in an age when, on a PC, you needed to buy video capture cards and expensive editing software. DVD burning for everyone in an age where, on a PC, you had to buy expensive authoring software. All of that came built-in on a Mac, it was a huge selling point.
Quick example: a number of years ago I helped a local youth group enter a video-making contest. Today, everyone and his mother knows how to use iMovie or Windows Movie Maker but back then, iMovie was still ahead of the curve. Our video was done in iMovie and had effects and everything. Most of our competition used VCR-to-VCR dubbing to cut together their videos. We won by a landslide. It was this sort of thing that Macs were so good at. You'd produce a video, a slide show, a newsletter, a website, a DVD, whatever, and people would say "Whoa, YOU did that? I thought you had to be a pro to be able to do that!" and you could proudly say "Nope, it's all included when you buy a Mac!"
Now, the PC world has caught up, they can do all that stuff just as good as a Mac can, and now Apple thinks it's time to pull the plug?
