So is Apple really abandoning Firewire?
If Apple were really abandoning Firewire, they wouldn't have put it in the new Intel boxes, let alone giving these new boxes the ability to boot from a Firewire drive (a feature that no other x86 box has).
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Tom Scola - Mar 20, 2006 11:11:54 am PST #7639 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
tommyrot - Mar 20, 2006 11:13:15 am PST #7640 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So either I was misinformed, or I misunderstood, and got that idea from iPods abandoning Firewire.
NoiseDesign - Mar 20, 2006 11:14:49 am PST #7641 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
They've made no announcements to that effect. They've dropped FW800 off the MacBooks, but it's still on the towers. They are also still happily selling the iSight, which is Firewire only, and promoting the features that it adds into iChat. My suspicion is that they are re-positioning FW800. FW400 will remain on the laptops, and if folks need 800 for their editing work on laptops they can add a card for it. I do fairly large multitrack editing on a laptop and FW400 more than handles the traffic, so I think the demand at the portable level for FW800 just isn't there.
Beyond that, I believe they share a controller on the laptops, so the FW800 and the FW400 port can end up fighting for bandwidth. As a result heavy users are already better off adding a third party FW800 interface.
Tom Scola - Mar 20, 2006 11:16:01 am PST #7642 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The same thing that makes Firewire fast (the separate controller chip), was the same thing that was preventing Apple from making the iPods as thin as possible.
tommyrot - Mar 20, 2006 11:17:11 am PST #7643 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The same thing that makes Firewire fast (the separate controller chip), was the same thing that was preventing Apple from making the iPods as thin as possible.
Ah. OK, now I don't mind that my two newest iPods don't have Firewire.
Gris - Mar 20, 2006 11:28:00 am PST #7644 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Firewire also provides more power. So, for example, if you have one of the small, svelte, portable external drives, most can do both power and data through a single Firewire connection, but it requries two USB cords - one for power, one for data.
Same for the laptop enclosures. One cord for Firewire, two for USB.
Allyson - Mar 20, 2006 11:41:17 am PST #7645 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
caltech store is having an enormous sale. 12" iBook for 849...which includes tax.
Damn. WANT. If I had done my taxes earlier, I could buy...I could buy by charging it and then use my taxes to pay it off.
Decisions...
Gris - Mar 20, 2006 11:48:25 am PST #7646 of 10003
Hey. New board.
I SO love that store, Allyson. For such a small space, they sure have a lot of nice Mac stuff.
That sale is on because there will probably be new iBooks (with Intel chips) released within the next month. There have been rumors that the new iBooks will be released at a significantly lower price point than old ones, so there may be a new, modern, $899 widescreen iBook that is much faster available in a month at the same store. OR, they may not lower the price at all, so this may be your only shot at that figure. Not to intentionally make your decision harder or anything.
It's always a gamble with Apple.
Gudanov - Mar 20, 2006 11:50:19 am PST #7647 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
I wonder if there will soon be a flood of used PPC Macs on eBay.
Spidra Webster - Mar 20, 2006 1:40:32 pm PST #7648 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Gud, I think there will be some but I'd be surprised if it was a flood. I would imagine people will let the pioneer users work out the kinks first.
Just got the current version of iListen. Haven't loaded it yet. I hope it has a higher accuracy rate than the last version I tried. I don't blame MacSpeech. I'm glad they're plugging away at it. I'm miffed at Apple for pissing away their lead in voice recognition in the '90s. The Mac has never caught up again. Still, I hate getting on the PC and the only reason I bought the damned thing was to use Naturally Speaking.