> Apple has already declared they are abandoning firewire > for USB in the near future(marketing decision, not engineering). Please can you provide a link to this statement? MacBook Pro models still have FW800 which is backwards compatible to the FW400 specs and has an Express/34 slot which can take a FW400 card. The MacBook Air has no internal optical drive. Does this mean that Apple have abandoned CD's and DVD's as recordable media? Paul --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage your account options at <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi>