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From: nospam on 6 Feb 2010 18:06
In article <1jdi3xo.m1ttq11lal9tN%pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink>, Paul Fuchs
<pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink> wrote:

> As to Apple putting FW back in the MacBooks, I'd give it an ice cube's
> chance in hell. Apple has never put a port or storage mode back in a
> model once they have pulled it.

they pulled firewire 800 on the first intel macbook pro, brought it
back in a later revision.

usb3 is going to replace firewire anyway.
From: Ian Gregory on 6 Feb 2010 18:16
On 2010-02-06, Mike Rosenberg <mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com> wrote:

> I'm guessing that $500 PC laptop doesn't have Firewire, either, and it
> certainly doesn't have iMovie.

Is this *the* John Wolf you are talking to? There are no gmail addresses
on your list of his identities:

http://macconsult.com/identities/

Ian

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From: Jolly Roger on 6 Feb 2010 18:17
In article <060220101506553865%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>,
nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote:

> usb3 is going to replace firewire anyway

Oh? kinda like HTML 5 is going to replace flash, eh?

You're a funny guy...

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From: Ian Gregory on 6 Feb 2010 18:22
On 2010-02-06, nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote:

> like hell they don't. nobody's perfect and apple has their share of
> fuckups, just like anyone else.

[snipped]

> ibook g3

Are you referring specifically to the logic board failures on some
machines? Mine went but I got a new one under the free replacement
programme and other than that it was a great machine. It was my only
computer for 4 years and when I sold it the new owner got a couple more
years out of it.

Ian

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From: John Drako on 6 Feb 2010 18:25
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 23:42:07 -0500, John wrote
(in article
<jwolf6589-63123E.23420705022010(a)newsfarm.iad.highwinds-media.com>):

> Soon I plan to buy a new Mac. I wish to buy the MacBook Pro, but I wont
> buy a Mac that will need to be upgraded whenever Mac OSX Lion, Cheetah,
> or Mac OS 11 show up. So I will wait till they release one with a larger
> hard drive and more RAM. Does anyone know when Apple will release new
> MacBook pro's with more RAM and a larger Hard drive? I mean 160GB's?
> Come on man, thats only twice as much as I have in my iBook G4. 2 GB's
> RAM? Come on man thats not enough.

JWOLF, welcome back to trolling the group....

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