Petition Asks Apple to Add FireWire to MacBook Lineup
A petition has popped up online, started by Mac user Thorsten Raasch. The petition is titled ‘FireWire ports in Apple consumer notebooks’. The petition reads:
To: Apple Inc.
We all love your products, Apple Inc.! But your recently refreshed line of consumer notebooks lacks the possibility to plug in digital audio and video equipment as well as fast mass storage devices. Therefore, we pledge to purchase a new MacBook or MacBook Air if you, the inventor of FireWire technology, would be so kind to bring back FireWire ports to those products.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
As of 8:47AM CST, the petition had 8,647 signatures. I think they’ll need many, many, many more to have any sort of effect. You can check out and sign the petition here.
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well, $8,647.00 x $1299 = 11,2323,453.00 dollars. Apple is that enough to convince you? As a shareholder it seems like a good idea to me.
$11,232,453-(I”ve got jumpy fingers)
Wish to also begin a petition so that Apple provides an option for non-glossy screens for the MackBook Pro and Cinema Displays !!
How does one go about it.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=2414
I do need firewire in order to connect my camcorder photo camera and 3 hard disks.
“But your recently refreshed line of consumer notebooks lacks the possibility to plug in digital audio and video equipment as well as fast mass storage devices?”
False statement since new Mac Books have got USB 2.0. You should specify “… devices using Firewire” or similar.
this new macbook is rubbish without firewire. How could apple exclude it? is it new mac or old fashioned mac?
I have been a supporter of Firewire since 1998, and had lots of hands on use
of firewire video transfer and was one of the first in line with my media company
to buy a Sawtooth G4 with built in firewire ports.
Since then, Apple has gone corrupt in terms of convenience and user abilities
with the tools available for the price.
Abid says is this new or old mac? It is neither, it’s a different beast altogether.
Just log onto Apple anytime, within the last 3 years, and when have you seen
an actual Personal computer of any type (one that you can actually
be productive with, not a little gizmo used for entertainment) on the splash screen.
Apple should divide into 2, and have two separate identities. I fully understand
that’s how they make their bread and butter, but what happened to their
focus of providing tools for the PRODUCER, not the CONSUMER.
You can call it now, the PRO-SUMER, but I don’t see any of those in my vicinity,
just one, or the other.
You look at the apple line, and you find Firewire, but it’s only 800.
There must be someone with more info on why this has happened. It surely
has something to do with market shares and possibly sony. All these big
giants battling for money, and they end up knocking around so much, they forget
what they promised. Hey sounds just like the governments of the world.
In real world tests, firewire blows away USB 2.0 and I’m firm with those
observations. I’ve had more corrupt data from transferring over USB
than I could have predicted. They have gone “off the shelf” instead of
custom offerings. Oh well. This whole approach is the same as what Apple
did with the glorious and still functional Pismo. Apple, whoever you are,
just put back in what we expect (from your own jargon)
and pay for, or you will lose out in the end.