Pogue Loves the New MacBook, But...

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.” (More MacBook stories.)