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Apple tried to murder FireWire--and failed. For now.

• cubicle67 17y ago
  Actual title: "FireWire: It’s Baaaaaaaaaaaack!"
• bjelkeman-again 17y ago
  More disturbing is that we have found several firewire disks unreliable with Mac OS X recently, gradually freezing applications which are running to the point where the OS is unusable. Happens on Seagate FreeAgent Desk for Mac and some no-name disk, and a small portable large brand disk (can't remember the mfg right now), leading me to think it is a firmware problem in the firewire disks. Oh well.
• jarrodtaylor 17y ago
  Apple didn't try to kill FireWire. They didn't see the need for it on their non-pro line. The new 13-inch model is a Pro now, so it gets FireWire.
• dgreensp 17y ago
  All of this talk hinges on the premise that shipping computers without FireWire is some kind of visionary move for Apple, part of their legendary forward-looking philosophy. Now they're shipping a machine with FireWire. Heavens. Surely this is some sort of meta-visionary move.