As expected Apple announced the new sub-ultra-portable mac recently, and now everyone is salivating collectively. Including myself. It has some really nice features, and especially lack thereof. The most noteworthy lack is that, this is the first mac to be sold WITHOUT firewire connection, since 1998.
Apple always gives hint to new trends, with their new breed of products. This time around it's pretty apparent that macs sans optical drives, might be coming our way in the near future. Furthermore the emphasis on wireless, both in the iPhone as a substitute for GPS, and the new MacBook Air's lack of superdrive, makes a clear point about the direction Apple is headed.
The other trend is the omission of a FireWire port, which has been standard on all macs since it's introduction in 1998. Back then it was set to be the most prevalent way of connecting your DV camcorder to your mac, and transfer files. Even the first iPod in 2001, came only with IEEE 1394 (aka FireWire), but USB have been combatting the standard ever since they moved to version 2.0 in the new millenium.
And now, it seems: firewire is about to face it's demise.
Who knows what Apple has in store....
only Stevie will tell
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