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Pogue Loves the New MacBook, But...

Tech writer mourns the end of FireWire, and of home movies on tape

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(Newser) – There’s much to love about the new MacBook, writes David Pogue in the New York Times. The laptop is “a thing of beauty,” with a fabulous trackpad-cum-clicker, an easy way to switch out the battery or even hard drive and a smaller environmental footprint. But there’s also something to mourn: the loss of the FireWire jack.

Apple likely will drop FireWire from its other computers as well. Then, users of MiniDV camcorder tapes, like Pogue, will find their movies stranded on tapes that, soon, will be obsolete. “The writing is on the wall,” writes Pogue: “Tape is dead. And Apple is not about to preserve some legacy jack just for the sake of the dwindling MiniDV cult.”

Visitors check out the new 13-inch Macbook laptops at the Apple Store in New York, Thursday Oct. 16, 2008.
Visitors check out the new 13-inch Macbook laptops at the Apple Store in New York, Thursday Oct. 16, 2008.   (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)
Attila Fovenyessy checks out the new Macbook at the Apple Store in New York, Oct. 16, 2008.
Attila Fovenyessy checks out the new Macbook at the Apple Store in New York, Oct. 16, 2008.   (AP Photos)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs talks about the new MacBook Pro during a product announcement at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Oct. 14, 2008.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs talks about the new MacBook Pro during a product announcement at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Oct. 14, 2008.   (AP Photo)
In this Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008 file photo, a customer tries out the new $999 MacBook at an Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif.
In this Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008 file photo, a customer tries out the new $999 MacBook at an Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
In this Oct. 16, 2008 file photo, a customer tries out the new $999 MacBook at an Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif.
In this Oct. 16, 2008 file photo, a customer tries out the new $999 MacBook at an Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
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