Who's Buying....

within the next few days...

They are already here.

I would have been up for new Cinema Displays, but definitely not with a glossy screen.
Anyway, they now come with some drippy little connector which won't fit my graphics card on the Pro tower.

if FCP will work on the new Macbooks or stuff like that

Well I imagine that it would run better on the new ones with the better graphics chip but Apple yanked the FW port so that makes them pretty useless for FCP. I actually caught myself thinking about getting one until I saw that little tidbit. Oh well.

K

To clarify, the Macbook Pro has a FW800 port, the Macbook has NO firewire port.

Yeah, I was thinking about a new Macbook as well but I'm wanting a pony instead.

Thanks Zeb, I missed that he mentioned both.

K

I guess Firewire 400 is OUT...! Passé.

I guess Firewire 400 is OUT...! Passé.

Passé huh? Tell that to everyone with DV and HDV cameras who want to capture their family vacation and edit it with iMovie on their new MacBooks but...OH, they can't! No firewire, and they can't capture video via USB from those cameras. So...stuck.

Bad move away from a standard...

I for one, when I can afford it, will be buying a refirb...

Shane

c'mon Shane, hear my sarcasm...

The latest Mac without Firewire, I am sure this is a marketing initiative or a technological advancement, but will it sell more Macs?

Perhaps 3rd party converter manufacturers had a say in this.

You can get FW400 to FW800 cables. Or, better yet, get an Expresscard34 FW400/800 card. This isn't the end of the world.

However, ONLY glossy screens IS.

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yeah, but on a Macbook, where you gonna plug it in? There is no 400 port or an express slot. No way to get ingest into a new Macbook. All you have is USB and gigE. Unless they come up with some new capture via osmosis feature...

I figured I would just throw something out there in anticipation of the new Macbook and Macbook Pros.

My earlier post was aimed to the MacBookPro crowd.

With regard to the MacBook, I don't get what the fuss is all about. The MacBook will be a wonderful device for students, bloggers, graphic designers etc. It is not - *nor has it ever been* - designed as a video editing machine.

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Oh believe me, I am not fussing... I got a Macbook pro, and I love it. No issues here. And I was going to post the same thing you just did. Leave the Macbook to the students and the casual computer user. It's a great product. I have one of those too, for my wife. She loves it. Small, powerful. Sends her emails like a champ. Plays music too. I even watched an internet video on it. That was cool... Word works on it. So does Photoshop. I'm sorry, what was the fuss again...? Oh I get it, someone wants to buy an HV20 but they are upset that they can't plug their P2 card into it and shoot Uncompressed HD...

na, you must use the power adapter in conjunction with the audio in port for that...

Oh, that one's easy. Get a big hammer and slam that plug home. In engineering terms, it's called an interference fit. Plug it in once and never disconnect it.

(note to children: This is sarcasm. A deliberate, serious attempt to insert a FW800 plug into a USB2 port will result in permanent damage to the computer and a dope slap when you come here to complain.)

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