No more FireWire? Do you believe that lappy crappy?

[msgeek]

The new MacBooks have eliminated FireWire, and FW ports on the MacBook Pro have been cut down to just one. MacBook Air never had it

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FireWire

[dburr]

I must admit that this irked me at first. But I can sort of see their reasoning

So... where's the SD slot?

[happypickle]

Seriously I see consumer grade camcorders being entirely SD based within 2-3 years, at least as long as SD prices keep falling as they've been.

But that's not enough reason to remove 1394 from a freaking $1295 laptop.

And that's the real problem. $1295 is far too much for a consumer laptop when the rest of the basically-taiwanese competition is in the $600-800 range. Sure the laptops aren't as good, but... they're good enough out of the box for pretty much all non-gaming PC users.

Re: So... where's the SD slot?

[msgeek]

It's probably coming. Next upgrade cycle.

[notorious_oit]

Even my Thinkpad X60T has a Firewire port.

[msgeek]

Yeah, isn't it laughable? Then again, I'm laughing in front of my MacBook that does. And like I said before, they held over the white plastic MacBook for one more cycle. Which has a FireWire port.