Complaints about the lack of FireWire in the new MacBooks
I’ve been reading a number of articles that have been reporting on the new MacBooks that Apple released yesterday. As I go through and read the comments there always seems to be one or two people who gripe about the fact Apple has removed FireWire from the new MacBook.
People need to understand that Apple is responding to the change in the market. Most device manufacturers have adopted USB as the standard interface for connecting their products to your computer. This includes, microphones, cameras, hard drives, printers, etc… For better or worse FireWire is becoming obsolete.
My biggest concern was that it was going to impact the ability to transfer video from a camcorder to the Mac. FireWire has been the standard for video cameras for quite sometime now. If you jump over to Best Buy or Circuit City’s web sites and look at the specs on the current video cameras; you will see that the vast majority of them use USB not FireWire to interface with your computer.
If your current video camera uses FireWire or if you have devices that use FireWire more than likely you have a computer that currently supports FireWire. Now would be the time to start moving that data to a USB device. Go out and get yourself a couple 1TB USB hard drives and start transferring you stuff. Use one as your primary device and use the other as a backup.
Don’t bash Apple for being proactive, its just counter productive on your part.
