Why the MacBook Pro is missing FireWire 800
I hear alot of people whining about the few features that are “missing” on the new Apple laptop and how some see it as “One step forward, two steps back”. Like for instance, excluding Firewire 800.
Here is a direct quote from David Moody, Apple Senior Vice President:
“Apple vice president David Moody confirmed in a briefing this afternoon, that Apple thought the best way to provide performance and flexibility was not to include FireWire 800 as a fixed port on the models.Instead, with 2 Gbps of bandwidth from the slot, an ExpressCard could, for instance, offer two simultaneous FireWire 800 ports that could run at full speed. This could support an extremely fast set of RAID 0 (striped) disks, for instance, with four disks being striped in an A, B, C, D fashion for a total throughput of 1.6 Gbps, limited only by the disks%u2019 read and write speeds.”
As for the missing 8x DL Superdrives, they had to work with what they had. Take into account they moved over from ATA to the SATA interface and the number of super-slim, slot-loading rewriters is limited. I’m sure they were working the best with what they could get in order to make this happen in time for MacWorld.
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Posted on January 21, 2006
Filed Under Apple, Daily Thoughts, Mobile Tech, Ranting
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Why the MacBook Pro Doesn’t have Firewire 800
I hear alot of people whining about the few features that are “missing” on the new Apple laptop and how some see it as “One step forward, two steps back”. Like for instance, excluding Firewire 800. Why would they do that you …