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Post by marcob on Oct 23, 2008 11:30:02 GMT
Yes, you read it right.
Contrary to what Mr. Steve Jobs says, the new Mac Book and Mac Book Pro line is the most polluted line of notebooks ever. Even though the unibody frame saves aluminum scraps in the manufacturing process and later the unibody frame can be recycled as a Coke can. The new notebook line is very bad for the environment.
Why? I will tell you why in 3 easy steps.
1) Even though all your firewire peripherals are working fine, grab all the firewire hubs, cables, external drives, scanners, camcorders, audio interfaces and other peripherals that I may have forgotten and throw it in trash. This will generate a lot of pollution.
2) Now go to a store and buy all the stuff back but this time for USB. Remember that all those new products will have to be produced again, boxed again, distributed again and the empty boxes will go to trash again, thus generating much more pollution.
3) Don't forget you will need to buy new more cables and adaptors for the new incredible video port that Apple will probably kill in the new notebook line. This is more incredible, it is generating future pollution.
Yes, computers need to evolve and computer ports too, but in a fashion that really can save us money, and generate less pollution no just in the manufacturing line but for the environment as well.
Most processes Mr. Jobs said are "green" were introduced just because they generate more "green" stuff for the company. If they did not introduced it before it is because they are lazy.
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Post by barryj21 on Oct 23, 2008 15:45:06 GMT
Or you could just buy either a 9-to-6 pin, or 9-to-4 pin firewire cable!
Still, not as much fun as having a hissy fit and throwing your all hardware out I expect ..... and doesn't make for such an over the top, dramatic story.
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Post by Forum Cat on Oct 23, 2008 17:01:01 GMT
I am a little perplexed by the absence of FW in the MacBook. As far as I can make out I have several options. 1) Buy an aluminium MacBook. Then update my audio interface (quite an expensive thing to do). Update my external FW storage. (much less expensive) 2) Buy one of the white MacBooks that still have a FW400 port. Great but not as pretty as the aluminium ones. (They also have a nice selection of these in the refurb store at the moment.) 3) Buy a MacBook Pro. (This would be cheaper than option 1) Sometimes the Apple philosophy of the simplest possible solution forces us to make hard choices.
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Post by marcob on Oct 24, 2008 1:39:33 GMT
What makes me mad is that Apple is a cool company for sure, but it doesn't entitled then to mess with us like they do.
I use Macs since 1986 and it is an illness that doesn't go away at Apple.
What makes me mad is that firewire protocol is a superior solution for high volume data transfer, but it's been substituted for the USB inferior solution just because it is more widespread as Jobs said.
This is a bad excuse because If I'm not wrong, I think today most desktop PC motherboards come with Firewire.
If we use the same logic to the Mac, we should stop buying the superior Mac OSX and buy the inferior Vista just because it sells more?
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Post by HeatherKay on Oct 24, 2008 7:27:53 GMT
I agree that dropping FW from the MacBook is a bum move, but I can sort of see why Apple did it. They've moved the laptop ranges together, so there's no real visual difference between the "home/ed" MacBook and the "pro/am" MacBook Pro. So, to differentiate it they've only fitted FW (probably deemed a pro requirement) to the pro model. Does anyone remember that the first Intel MacBook Pros also didn't have FW800? And the amount of noise made when it was realised the Intel machines had dropped the S-video connector? Apple eventually returned the FW800 socket to the range, but S-video was dead in the water, and rightly so. What I'm trying to say is that the next revision of the MacBook range might see FireWire return to the low end, and eSATA appear on the high end. I still don't like the idea of all the connections down the left side. While I'm in desktop mode with the 20in ACD connected, I have my laptop on the left.
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Post by timark_uk on Oct 24, 2008 10:36:50 GMT
I still don't like the idea of all the connections down the left side. While I'm in desktop mode with the 20in ACD connected, I have my laptop on the left. Have you changed your desk layout then?I remember you ACD being on the left and the PowerBook (as it was then) being on the right. The lack of FW is disheartening, as I was looking to get a laptop for field work for when I go out and about photographicing, I've convinced myself that getting a windows laptop with a built-in CF card reader may be the way to go, as I'd also be able to install Lightroom on it to check the images I'd taken. *shrug* Mark
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Post by HeatherKay on Oct 24, 2008 10:44:17 GMT
I do swap the layout about a bit. As my eyesight changes, I find I need to be a bit nearer the main screen than when it was arranged the other way about.
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Post by marcob on Oct 24, 2008 11:52:07 GMT
When I had some bottles of my preferred beer I really need to change my desk layout, but in the state I'm in I won't find anything, so I don't change anything.
;D
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