Apple tried to murder FireWire--and failed. For now.

More disturbing is that we have found several firewire disks unreliable with Mac OS X recently, gradually freezing applications which are running to the point where the OS is unusable.

Happens on Seagate FreeAgent Desk for Mac and some no-name disk, and a small portable large brand disk (can't remember the mfg right now), leading me to think it is a firmware problem in the firewire disks. Oh well.

All of this talk hinges on the premise that shipping computers without FireWire is some kind of visionary move for Apple, part of their legendary forward-looking philosophy. Now they're shipping a machine with FireWire. Heavens. Surely this is some sort of meta-visionary move.

Apple didn't try to kill FireWire. They didn't see the need for it on their non-pro line. The new 13-inch model is a Pro now, so it gets FireWire.

Actual title: "FireWire: It’s Baaaaaaaaaaaack!"