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Re: New Macbook - Deliberately hobbled?
by Ben Holmes on Oct 16, 2008 at 3:02:24 pm

Winston

USB2 is no good for video capture/playback, as it sends data in packets, not continuously. It's also not supported by the vast majority of consumer camcorders, unlike firewire. Even setting aside someone like me, who has bought into the entire Mac spectrum (I currently own a Mac Mini, iMac, MBP, and several Mac Pros) that's a lot of consumers and prosumers to diss.

Again - ask yourself 'why drop it'. If it's because the NVidia chipset does not support it, then how is FW800 implemented on the new MBP? It certainly doesn't require the 'other' gfx chip to be enabled to use firewire AFAIK.

Nope, sorry - this was a cold hard business decision by Apple to create an affordable MacBook Pro (one as I said that I and others would have bought instantly as a second machine) but then remove a key feature to maintain sales of the pro machines - because honestly, from a video point of view, setting aside Motion or Color (for which I recommend a tower anyway) the new MacBook would probably have done everything you would have needed it to, if it had a proper interface. Without it, unless you're a gamer, it's just an over-priced laptop to many many people.

Ben

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