New macbooks next tuesday

[Transputer]

To file a complaint about the exclusion of FIREWIRE in Macbooks you can simply click here... very simple.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbook.html

Or call 1800-MYAPPLE and ask for the Consumer Relations Division...

For MACBOOK PRO click here...
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbookpro.html

Complaint filed.

 

[Kazrog]

The bad press is spreading, this is one of many similar articles:

http://www.computerworld.com/action...ArticleBasic&articleId=9117339&intsrc=hm_list

Apple fucked up bigtime. I really hope that whoever succeeds Steve Jobs (perhaps Jony Ive?) corrects these missteps and starts building machines with true power user features in mind at every price point, more how they used to.

 

[Metaltastic]

I don't even know why they would ditch it, surely it's become so standardized that omitting it wouldn't save any significant amount of money?

 

[Kazrog]

I don't even know why they would ditch it, surely it's become so standardized that omitting it wouldn't save any significant amount of money?

As I said, it's the obsession with simplification. Apple feels (wrongly) that USB 2.0 has replaced Firewire 400. Apple led the way with eliminating floppy drives in 1998 - that was a great decision. This latest decision though, is retarded.

 

[Let it burn...]

bad news is: my school waited to order me a macbook until the new ones came out. So i'm stuck with a new one

 

[::XeS::]

Just a curiosity..... 1 year ago Apple change the FW chip on their iMac, MB and MBP from Texas Instruments to Agere and lot of people didn't use anymore their audio interface.
The “new” version is Agere (formerly Lucent). These chipsets are completely incompatible with all firewire audio/MIDI interfaces — they’ll see drives, cameras, etc., but not audio/MIDI. In fact, because of this chipset, RME (a major manufacturer of high-end interfaces) has de-listed the Leopard OS as being compatible.
Apparently the problem is the FW400 port.
One solution is to buy and connect an external fw disk to the fw800 port and daisy-chains the audio interface using the fw400 port of the disk.......it seems to work.

So.........it's only a casuality that Apple eliminates fw port from new Mac books and eliminates the 400 port from the Pros? mmmmmmmmmmmmmh

 

[Kazrog]

Wow, great info about the chip set issue. I built my Hackintosh with TI FireWire.

 

[LydonB]

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/10/17/steve-jobs-on-lack-of-firewire-in-macbooks/

:doh:

Wow Steve...wow. I hope they did not solely base the decision to take FW off the MB because of HD camcorders. I doubt it but wtf.

 

[Let it burn...]

the new imacs are next. just wait and see...

 

[lost_within]

I was planning to get the new ones when I move out in July, seems unlikely now after the bad press. It's a toss up between a PC or an Imac now. I want something to record demos on and run logic (or cubase if it's a pc), nothing too advanced, something I can connect an external sound card (emu 1616 maybe) and to surf the internet, and store music.. which would you reccomend? The thing I don't have much mac experience, been using PC's since whenever.

 

[beyond dead]

you could find a sick deal on a used macbook, or a refurbished model. then you would get the old model. I have been running mbox, firepod and liquid mix with my macbook, runs flawlessly!!!