Unfortunately Apple, the inventor and promotor of FireWire technology, decided to remove FireWire ports from the current line of consumer notebooks. But this decision dramatically affects several relevant groups of buyers. In an online petition with currently 10000+ signatures (see
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/MB1394/petition.html), they loudly complain about this restriction of connectivity. Among those are:
- consumers who want to plug in their fast FireWire hard drives for backup purposes (as you know, FireWire is superior in terms of reliability, sustained throughput and CPU load)
- consumers who want to use their existing FireWire DV equipment for making private videos (still many DV cams do not use USB which would anyway be inferior to FireWire)
- musicians who heavily rely on a variety of FireWire audio devices, preferably managed by a 13" Apple notebook (the larger MacBook Pro is not always an alternative)
- teachers who need to use and maintain FireWire equipment at schools
- students and researchers who are working with FireWire cameras and audio/video equipment at universities and research institutes
- programmers who can no longer deploy their software without the FireWire-enabled Target Mode (which is also extremely useful for the maintenance of corrupted boot volumes)
Therefore we, the signers of the petition, ask Apple to reintroduce FireWire ports in a revision of the MacBook consumer notebook line.
Regards
Ich wollte auch nur darauf hinweisen, dass bei den jetzt verkauften Geräten der Boot-Vorteil von FW kein Thema mehr ist und der Target-Modus damit eigentlich auch nichts zu tun hat. Und diese Diskussion bezieht sich ja auf den Kauf aktueller Geräte.
