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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Guys, how many of you were around in 1990? do you remember reading about USB? The standard was published in 1989. 1989! That was before Windows 3.1. Hell, it was before Windows 3.0. Remember where the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Well, cripes!!! Look it up if that's not enough to give you an idea, which is all I was doing. We know what E-SATA does. It's far better for drives than FW ever was, or could be. no probs but if you …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Then you should go back and read some more posts where it's explained. Nah, I'll explain it for the fifth time. USB 3 isn't really USB as we know it. It's much more like FW. It's called USB because it su…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Forget 3200. It's not likely that Apple will support it, and I can't think of a singlereason they should. FW is now on the dying edge, before, it was on the bleeding edge. In a year, there will no longer…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mct My god, I can´t believe that this thread is going on and on and on over 19 pages.. What a typical pointless discussion this is.. Those missing FW in the new MBs: you obviously have a working system that you´re cu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Can you point to some logical proof outside of your opinion that ports are that important to sales. I can point to logical proof that faster processors, RAM, GPU, and FSB ultimately add more value to the us…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea With what? That USB2 dominated the market even 2 years ago? Done. That eSATA was the emerging new high speed external disk interface? Done. ok mate - you can look at every second computer and find USB2 - a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea FW400 was borderline 2 years ago. Back this up... Quote: Originally Posted by vinea FW800 is borderline today. ditto... Quote: Originally Posted by vinea 2 years is a long time. What made FW40…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Abster2core I personally wouldn't want to have to use Logic on anything less than a top - the-line Macbook Pro. Certainly not on a Macbook no matter how many FireWire ports were on it. yes i understand that a 'top o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Abster2core Fix the fan. Or as my lab guys suggest, cash in the Mac Pro and Macbook and get a new fully loaded Macbook Pro. As one of them suggested, what have you got connected to the Macbook when the fan runs full bl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Abster2core So what are you using now? at home mac pro (eight core 2.88 early 2008) attached to either MOTU 8 Pre Phonic Helix 24 Edirol FA-101 and on the go (either recording at friends etc or live gigs) Ma…
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Quote: Originally Posted by drblank Why don't you get a Firewire to USB2 cable and problem solved? The MacBook is a computer for entry level users, if you need to use Firewire 400/800, get a MacBookPro. If you can't afford a MacBookPro and ha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell This is interesting. The affordable 13-inch MacBook provides USB2 connectivity for audio I/O, and the MOTU 828mkII USB2 audio interface is the perfect professional audio I/O solution for this new generat…
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New Macbook - No Firewire !!? (Graphic)
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Ah, so much angst over something that some cable or a simple adapter will fix.... (and that too, only for those choosing to restrict themselves, by choice or necessity, to the MB or the MBA). ha obvi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by FuturePastNow And we're at an impasse here, because I suspect exactly the opposite. Most Mac users are just like most computer users in general: they're not "pro"s, they're not power users, they don't follow technology…
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i find it rather strange how those people who keep saying that they're happy with the new macbooks keep hanging around here calling the rest of us whiners... you'd think they'd be out there using them with their fancy USB ports to surf the net …