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Re: New Macbook - Deliberately hobbled?
by Winston A. Cely on Oct 16, 2008 at 1:26:22 pm

I'm still not understanding all the fuss over the loss of FW400. The company I worked for in Seattle (and I carry this policy now) stopped using FW400 for capture, or video drive space well over 3 years ago. As mentioned in the earlier thread, there's an ExpressCard slot if you need FW400 and there are adapters for FW400 to FW800 if you want to use that ExpressCard slot for something else. With all do respect to those who still use FW400 specifically, it's time to move on. Mobile editing can be handled quite well with eSata as many manufactures offer hot-swappable solutions for this connectivity. The IoHD is FW800 so capture on the go with these new 'books should be a snap.

Fact of the matter is that FW400 should have been put out to low-end consumer devices long ago to make way for FW800 to be the new standard. I'm sure there are some technically reasons (probably heat or power consumption) that kept this from happening sooner, but it's happening now so kudos to Apple for finally taking these steps.

Again, just IMHO. :D

Winston A. Cely
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