Comments on: Shiny new MacBooks useless for video http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/10/15/shiny-new-macbooks-useless-for-video/ Frank Carver's musings about software and life Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:15:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andrew Beresford http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/10/15/shiny-new-macbooks-useless-for-video/comment-page-1/#comment-655 Andrew Beresford Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:10:58 +0000 http://blog.punchbarrel.com/?p=676#comment-655 Yep - they've dropped the ball there. It would nearly be excusable if the new MacBook had an ExpressCard slot, but it doesn't. I've seen that there are some <a href="http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=205852397&SearchEngine=DealTime&SearchTerm=205852397&Type=PE&Category=Comp&Gad=0&dcaid=15891" rel="nofollow">Firewire 800 to Gigabit Ethernet Converters</a> available, but I haven't a clue how well supported these are under OS X. Of course, they did reduce the price of the previous MacBook range, which are still good machines and the savings on the price could be used to upgrade the hardware. Don't buy memory upgrades from Apple though, they are <b>very</b> expensive. It might be worth me mentioning that the MacBook Pro I have now and the PowerBook G4 I had before that are the two best built and (for their time) best performing laptops I've ever used, but they're certainly not cheap. Yep – they’ve dropped the ball there. It would nearly be excusable if the new MacBook had an ExpressCard slot, but it doesn’t. I’ve seen that there are some Firewire 800 to Gigabit Ethernet Converters available, but I haven’t a clue how well supported these are under OS X.

Of course, they did reduce the price of the previous MacBook range, which are still good machines and the savings on the price could be used to upgrade the hardware. Don’t buy memory upgrades from Apple though, they are very expensive.

It might be worth me mentioning that the MacBook Pro I have now and the PowerBook G4 I had before that are the two best built and (for their time) best performing laptops I’ve ever used, but they’re certainly not cheap.

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