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Users Rage Over Missing FireWire On New MacBooks
CWmike writes "Apple customers, unhappy that the company dropped FireWire from its new MacBook (not the Pro), are venting their frustrations on the company's support forum in hundreds of messages. Within minutes of Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrapping up a launch event in Cupertino, Calif., users started several threads to vent over the omission. 'Apple really screwed up with no FireWire port,' said Russ Tolman, who inaugurated a thread that by Thursday has collected more than 300 messages and been viewed over 8,000 times. 'No MacBook with [FireWire] — no new MacBook for me,' added Simon Meyer in a message posted yesterday. Several mentioned that FireWire's disappearance means that the new MacBooks could not be connected to other Macs using Target Disk Mode, and one noted that iMovie will have no way to connect to new MacBooks. Others pointed out that the previous-generation MacBook, which Apple is still selling at a reduced price of $999, includes a FireWire port. Apple introduced FireWire into its product lines in 1999 and championed the standard."
The internet has become a giant echo chamber/amplifier for whining. And slashdot gives the whiniest whiners the mic far too often, in my opinion.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
lmao yeah mac isn't just a product, it's a lifestyle and a religion. I don't understand what people see in it. Crappy proprietary hardware, that is cheap in quality, but unbelievably expensive to repair or replace. Unless of course..you have Apple Care. I know someone who spent a total of $2500 on their MacBook Pro (with Apple Care). I got my ThinkPad T61 off eBay, new, for $800 with about the same specs. Since we have had our machines, mine has never had anything wrong with it at all. On his, the webcam broke, and they couldn't fix it so the entire screen needed to be replaced. The battery started dying after 30 minutes of usage, and on top of that it had bad memory. But wait it gets better. After further review, the memory wasn't the only issue. It was found that the motherboard was frying the memory modules! JOY! So now the mobo had to be replaced too! Sounds like QUALITY to me!
Shhhh..
Apple has created a market of, for and about selling idiots things they don't need, at an inflated price, that does little to less than it's predecessor.
I'm seriously thinking of cobbling together a WinTel system to play with the new OSX release... But, to be fair, I'd NEVER own another macintosh (as I sit here staring at my iMAC Teal (was a gift to my kids)... Can't really call it a usable computer, as half the time it doesn't work) after owning two of them. One had hard drive issues (to be fair, not exactly Apple's fault... I've had HDDs fail in WinTel crap, too) but was a SCREAMING system on the original OSX. This iMAC, well, it was great for my uncle (until he used my Dell XP laptop, then he gives my kid his mac and orders an XP lappy) as he was scared of a calculator (really, a self made millionaire that HATES electronics) and the Apple got him into computers (and to not be scared of them).
This iMAC POS (which is a newer system by ages compared to my last MAC) is a, for lack of better terms, a POS (and I'm not talking Point of Sale).
--Toll_Free
Yeah, and WTF am I supposed to do with all these AppleTalk connectors?!?
If you need firewire, get a mac that has it.
If you need to bitch, bitch about macs not having frickin serial ports.