Firewire sucks according to Steve
Monday, October 20th, 2008Well, Apple took FireWire out of its most recent MacBooks. Even though I have a stack of hard drives — full of legacy project data — that are all FireWire 400-compatible, Mr. Jobs says, “Ahh, fugetaboutit.”
Well, as a good little Apple disciple, if they tell me that FireWire sucks and I don’t need it anymore, then I guess they are right. I guess that I don’t need all that legacy project data. I guess I don’t need all that extra space that I have on all my external FireWire hard drives. Who needs the extra empty hard drive space anyway - right? I mean who cares that my time machine backup is on a small FireWire hard drive. I’ll just spend all that extra cash I have(NOT!) on getting a drive that is usb 2.0 compatible. While I’m at it - I’ll just replace all 20 of those FireWire drives I have sitting around too.
According to macrumors.com, one of their users got an email from El Steveo regarding the lack of FireWire on the new MacBooks, he said, “Actually, all of the new HD camcorders of the past few years use USB 2.” Ok Steve, not only will I follow you blindly - but I’ll even go out and spend extra money on replacing my FireWire camcorder. I mean even though it shoots great video and is really easy to use and I love it, its more than two years old - so that must mean its bad.
I think the new macbook will be a great deal. Lets figure it out.
1- MacBook, 1599.00
2- new backup hd, 150.00
3- 9 external hds in various sizes, 1080.00 (120 X 9)
4- new camcorder, 599.00
So the grand total for my new MacBook will be about $3,428.00 . Not bad - maybe I’ll get 2 with all the money that I don’t have!