By: agraham999
#27…I’m totally with you…I love chaining Firewire together…I’m very pro firewire…but I’m more often than not buying more USB stuff these days. I hate that I can’t chain devices together. But oh well…I...
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Has anything serious been written about how apple has turned away from Donald Norman’s concept of affordances? I haven’t read a UI book in years, but Donald Norman was an Apple guy and was very big on...
View ArticleBy: zuzu
Here’s why the lack of any firewire port is a big deal: you can’t boot OSX from a USB drive. So there’ll be no way to boot from an external drive (e.g., for emergency disk repair). And forget about...
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@ WinkyBB 17″ MBP use normal 12.7mm optical drives, for which Blu-Ray does exist. However, it’s expensive, neither VideoLAN nor Handbrake include the bluraybackup decryption code yet, and dedicated...
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I am so glad that there’s no really significant upgrades here. I dropped serious cash on a MBP 17″ earlier this year. I considered waiting for the Blu-ray drive, thinking it was inevitable in the next...
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Firewire, as much as I prefer it, is dead or dying. I don’t even use my old firewire drives anymore…and there is no real future in supporting two platforms when the majority of everything produced is...
View ArticleBy: agraham999
searconflex…I’m also an asshat…I just think people are complaining about something that is a natural progression in the evolution of a product line…and I’ve been writing about Apple for 10 years and...
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sure, fine. I’m also an asshat. what’s with the black frame though? why no FW? Did people complain about DVI? I admit, I’m excited to see the LED backlit screen though. I guess that’s better?
View ArticleBy: UniAce
Here’s why the lack of any firewire port is a big deal: you can’t boot OSX from a USB drive. So there’ll be no way to boot from an external drive (e.g., for emergency disk repair). And forget about...
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