Comments on: The T-Poll: Is the Death of MacBook FireWire an Outrage?

By: Oscar@MO

Oscar@MO — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:19:06 +0000

You wrote, “One thing seems certain: FireWire ain’t coming back to MacBooks.” Well, many are happy that you were wrong.

By: Zev Mo Bloggin’ » Blog Archive » Hey, Lauren! Is Apple’s 17-Inch MacBook Pro Expensive?

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:45:46 +0000

[...] may be slowly walking away from the FireWire standard it invented, but the MacBook Pro retains one FireWire 800 port. The [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:48:41 +0000

I believe that apple did this as a marketing scheme. Most consumers in my opinion don’t need firewire. Not everyone uses a macbook and requires firewire, usb hard dives are more common in my opinion and I barely come across Firewire cables. Consumers though will notice the graphic improvements.

Thats my insight, its annoying but I’ve never used Firewire except for target disk mode once.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:38:00 +0000

I’m an IT professional and a musician. I’ve been using a Powerbook G4 12 since they started making them. I use it for everything – developing software for clients, troubleshooting customers’ systems, configuring servers in data centers, and recording and editing music. Firewire is crucial to my business, my productivity, and my creativity. Just as important is the small size of the 12 inch Powerbook. I travel a lot with this machine, on foot, on buses, on planes, and I set it up in impossibly cramped work-spaces. I will NEVER buy a 15 inch laptop – it’s just too big.

The aluminum 13 inch Macbooks have everything I need – features, power, small size. Firewire is the only thing missing. I have money to buy a new machine now, and I would even pay “pro” prices for a Pro model of the new 13 inch Macbook with firewire. With no viable option from Apple however, I will not be purchasing.

By: Cory

Cory — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:41:54 +0000

I know tons of people who have been using the old macbooks for audio production, and you’re hard pressed to find a decent audio interface without firewire. For me, this is a deal breaker, since it’s in keeping with apple’s latest trend of catering to their ipod converts, instead of the artists, musicians, and scientists who have been using apple since OS 9. it’s like they’re intentionally making their computers less useful.

By: Ujwala

Ujwala — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:23:35 +0000

some warning would’ve been nice. i’ve backed up my old pb on an external fw iomega drive since i was planning to upgrade to the macbook a month later. and now there is no fw for me to retrieve my contents from the external drive!! and this is apple tech and promoted by them for so many years. why so suddenly? why not announce that with the next interation no fw port. or better yet why not make sure that there was an adapter available at the time of the launch?? i’ve been surfing but no links to such an adapter as yet.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:37:22 +0000

I was hoping that this was to be the Pismo replacement, so overdue.

Where to go from here?

Blowed if I know.

(wanders off screen right, muttering obscenities)

By: R

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:09:34 +0000

Apple is getting more and more arrogant, as its marketshare increases. In about 5-10 years, it will be as bad as Microsoft at its hideous worst. This discarding of the matte screen, you do a google search for , and you’ll see that most polls have between 40-60% people preferring matte. For Apple to discard the matte screen, ONLY because it wanted to create this shiny, pinnacle of graphic design artisty — without any regard for people who need to work with computers for many hours, staring at the screen, often in very brightly lit environments, where it is NOT POSSIBLE TO RE-ORIENT THE COMPUTER TO GET RID OF REFLECTIONS. We’re not saying glossy is better, or matte is better. JUST GIVE US THE OPTION, AND DON’T THRUST YOUR PREFERENCE ON US.

By: less ignorant

less ignorant — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:26:56 +0000

What the big deal… apple treats is customers like some soviet regime treats its citizens (it knows what best and gives you no choice). A Macbook Pro is how much heavier and bigger? Right I’m going to run final cut express, aperture, logic etc. in windows

By: Firewire400

Firewire400 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:22:48 +0000

What insteresting is the increasing number of PC motherboard that have Firewire 400 as built-in the last few years.

As someone who services Macs I target mode makes it easy for me to do and less bench time for the customer.

FW 800 should have been added to the macbook or add an expresscard slot