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Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll

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On 2016-11-06, Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:
> Howard S Shubs:
>  
>> Firewire is ANCIENT at this point.  While my machine has a FW800 port,
>> I gave up on it shortly after buying my 2009 MBP.
>
> So I should throw away my dozen or so FW800 drives?

No, but when they fail, and they will, you'll need to replace the
enclosures to use larger drives anyway.


>> When was the last time you bought something in a FW800 enclosure?
>
> About three months ago. Amazon currently lists 672 FireWire hard drives.

Nice.  As I said, I gave up on FW around 6 years ago.  There was no
reason to keep using it.  Why have you?  Aren't they still more
expensive?


> For an ancient technology (like displays and keyboards‹where's the
> cybernetic port?) FireWire serves me well.

I want spoken natural language recognition, and I want it NOW!  But
programming that way might be a bit silly.


> No complaints‹when I started this thread I said "Whatever this may look
> like, it's an observation, not a complaint."
>
> It's just that I'm not going to buy any new Mac hardware until I have
> to. If past experience is a guide, that will be five or six years from
> now. I put it off not to punish Apple‹spite is not my style‹but to save
> myself the cost of replacing perfectly good MacBook Pros that still run
> Adobe CC and Final Cut Pro, and the cost of replacing a passel of
> perfectly good hard drives. When the foregoing is no longer the case,
> I'll buy‹if Apple is still making computers at that time.

Agreed, that's why I'm doing it now.  My system had gotten too slow
(important), and it can't be upgraded to macOS Sierra (not necessarily
as important).

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Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2016-11-06 06:20 +0000
  Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-11-06 19:33 +1300
    Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2016-11-06 07:37 +0000
      Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2016-11-06 08:06 -0500
      Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-11-07 08:47 +1300
        Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-06 15:25 -0500
          Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-06 22:21 +0000
      Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-07 02:27 +0000
      Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-07 03:10 +0000
  Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2016-11-06 08:02 -0500
    Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2016-11-07 10:08 +0000
      Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-07 12:08 -0500
        Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-11-07 19:36 -0800
          Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-08 15:53 +0000
            Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-08 10:58 -0500
              Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-09 00:22 +0000
                Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2016-11-14 09:54 +0000
                Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-15 13:19 -0500
                Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2016-11-16 09:03 +0000
          Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2016-11-10 14:25 -0500
          Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2016-11-10 14:27 -0500
        Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2016-11-14 09:52 +0000
          Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-15 13:19 -0500
            Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2016-11-16 09:02 +0000
      Re: I'd Like to See a MacBook Pro Poll Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-11-08 09:14 +1300

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