Good old Steve!!!!
Published by Bilincas under Apple, Macbook, Steve Jobs on 5:20 PM
After the launch of the new Macbooks an angry customer sent an email directly to Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple for those who don't know) making a complaint about that fact that was no Firewire included.
Steve at his best, gave a short and expeted answer.
I guess it's pretty clear that Apple is abandoning the Firewire feature from their consumer-targeted machines, in this particular case, the Macbook, probably because they don't see it as a viable option anymore.
In the 90's Apple helped to develop Firewire, but it never made such an impact as USB, in fact USB2.0 has proven to be the winner of the lower end of the market.
USB2.0 is in fact slower but if you want performance then the Mackbook is not exactly what you want/need.
All the Mac's still offer Firewire support at this time with the exception of the new Macbook, and the new Macbook Pro only offers Firewire 800.
Nice going Steve
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Steve at his best, gave a short and expeted answer.
I guess it's pretty clear that Apple is abandoning the Firewire feature from their consumer-targeted machines, in this particular case, the Macbook, probably because they don't see it as a viable option anymore.In the 90's Apple helped to develop Firewire, but it never made such an impact as USB, in fact USB2.0 has proven to be the winner of the lower end of the market.
USB2.0 is in fact slower but if you want performance then the Mackbook is not exactly what you want/need.
All the Mac's still offer Firewire support at this time with the exception of the new Macbook, and the new Macbook Pro only offers Firewire 800.
Nice going Steve
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