Comments on: C’mon Apple… keep it coming.

By: markc

markc — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:27:57 +0000

“Well, in terms of functionality Firewire has been replaced by USB 2 anyway. Mind you I don’t agree, but that is what the market (and Apple) are saying.”

You can’t create a IP over USB network (at least not on MacOS X yet anyway). We do some out of band networking over firewire. Can be very handy and with front mounted Firewire ports, a snap to hook ‘em up.

At least they gave us built-in video a couple models back.

By: chuck goolsbee

chuck goolsbee — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:16:14 +0000

Well, in terms of functionality Firewire has been replaced by USB 2 anyway. Mind you I don’t agree, but that is what the market (and Apple) are saying.

By: yvovandoorn

yvovandoorn — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:31:26 +0000

Well to follow Chuck’s logic, a firewire port belongs on the back. I’m not aware of any firewire based keyboard or mouse, items needed for user interactivity. An external hard drive, after all, is a system device .

By: chuck goolsbee

chuck goolsbee — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:59:27 +0000

Apple giveth, and Apple taketh away.

By: markc

markc — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:01:04 +0000

But they took away the the FireWire port from the front – which we use frequently. Arghh.

Ideally we’d get both USB and FireWire.