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Originally Posted by Manic!
I guess Macs will never have USB 3.0 or Blu Ray.
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We might see USB 3.0 when it finally takes off and goes widespread across the market. Right now the selection of USB 3.0 devices is slim....
Not quite as slim as the higher peforming Thunderbolt but Lacie is already selling hard drives with the Thunderbolt interface.
Bluray is something that we may never see on macs, the "bag of hurt" comment is why. While I am not happy with he decision I understand it, also bluray would compete with apples iTunes movie purchase and rental system. Right not Apple is not the only company fighting bluray, there's a bunch of others... Even Microsoft omitted bluray on the xbox 360 slim, yes it kept the cost down but it allowed them to push their digital content distribution system.
For everyone on here saying FireWire is a failed standard or whatever... You obviously have not used a dv cam or transferred large amounts of data. FireWire is a necessity in the video world, and copying gigabytes or terabytes is much much quicker via FireWire than USB 2.0. Also on a external raid 0 or raid 5 enclosure, FireWire 800 is even faster. Its all about the quality and performance of the sata to FireWire chipset, a good Oxford brand chipset with outperform USB any day.
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