OT: new macbooks, no firewire

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Tue Oct 14 16:23:42 EDT 2008


Hello Stephen,

where do we put a plugin card on a macbook? Is this an expresscard
firewire thingy?

Andre

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Stephen Barncard
<stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:
> Apple has furthered the divide between MacBook and "Pro". The new MacBook
> Pro <does> have <one> firewire 800 port. More ports can be added via plugin
> card. For recording, I have to do that anyway for throughput.
>
>> Hi Andre,
>>
>> Having a few moments to spare I took a look at Apple's new MacBooks. Mixed
>> feelings. I think I'll need to see and touch to make a valid judgement. I
>> too have eye problems, so the contrast may be good for me, but I'm a
>> desktopper anyway, and probably won't be buying anything new for quite a
>> while. Certainly the firewire thing is a major turnoff. I somewhat recently
>> purchased two 500 GB firewires and can't imagine using USB for any major
>> transfers. Time Machine with USB.  Ha! Ha!
>>
>> By and large I think your comments are on the mark. We may all be back to
>> bows and arrows before too long anyway. (sigh!)
>>
>> Joe Wilkins
>>
>> On Oct 14, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> sometimes I do OT mails here, but this is just to ask if you guys
>>> followed the latest announcements by apple and saw their new macbooks.
>>> I must say, I have never ever been so disapointed at apple. I found
>>> the new macbooks as ugly as a traffic accident between an elephant and
>>> a pizza delivery car. What's with the black borders and keyboards on
>>> aluminum?!?! what happened, did they fired their designers?
>>
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>> Joe Lewis Wilkins
>> pepetoo at cox.net
>>
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