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As far as i am concerned it defies logic for Apple to abandon firewire. I myself have 5 external FW hard drives for specific purposes. I also have a DL eexternal DVD burner and a digital habndycam all of which I use with firewire. Sure I could use some of them with USB 2 but that is noticably slower than firewire. What I could NOT use with USB is the DVD burner, my 1T Lacie Superdrive on which EVERYTHING is backed up, my Handycam, and my 80G bootable back up drive for the computer Hd. Unless someone has changed the rules it is not possible to boot from USB. Even the casual user who just has an iBook would need a firewire port in order to connect a bootable backup drive if they were that way inclined. Like Bad Beaver ---> no firewire on the model i want ---> no new computer.