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Originally Posted by ubertuber
I think the macbook looks good - and I also think the outrage over the loss of FW800, svideo, and a modem is more than a little silly. There are dongles for modem and svideo, and pcexpress34 has higher throughput that FW800, so I fully expect an adapter if not a better technology.
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Apple has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to removing legacy hardware before it is stale (i.e. No floppy drives since 98, all usb no legacy serial interface). They are often criticized for doing this before its time but that’s apple. This is the reason apple has dumped PCMCIA for pcexpress34, the modem for ethernet and wireless, and Svideo for DVI and HD native video.
As for the FW800 this was dropped on account of the Intel chipset not currently supporting FW800, sad to see it go but it will likely be adopted on later machines. My only real beef is the use of a single layer DVD Burner when existing macs have DL Burners. But from what I have read this was a space issue, the DL burners are a few mm higher, this still doesn't sit well w/ me.
This machine may be a little ahead of its time, best of luck to early adoptors, but if 12 years of mac use have taught me nothing else, it is don't buy first gen hardware and wait for .1 release numbers.
I will be waiting for the iBook to come out to make my purchase.