Apple plays the role as the leading promoter of firewire devices for the last 10 years, and now I heard news that the next gen of (intel) ibooks are not going to have firewire. ***! I actually rather like firewire for external storage, and I have a firewire cam. No firewire, and no pcmcia I bet. If this is the case, I am going to try my damndest to buy a copy of osx (x86), once they are on shelves, and run it on my own Intel set up because using osx on apple's hardware is like watching playing doom on one of these:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5612776/

>:-(

/end rant