On 12/13/05, at 8:51 AM, Ross Winn ross.winn at gmail.com said: >iBooks are not Pro machines. iBooks are designed primarily for the >student and consumer market. Powerbooks are designed for the >professional market. One thing is for sure. Apple does not have any >problem with cutting out un-needed features for 90% of their market. >If 10% of iBook users are relying on Firewire it is a lot easier to >migrate them to powerbooks than it is to overcharge the other 90%. But don't a lot of consumers download from their camcorders via FW? Tom Miller .................................................. "The only time we see the middle of the road is as we run from side to side." R.O.Clark ...................................................