Re: OT: new macbook rant

[Peter Nyboer <pete@lividinstruments.com>]

I don't have any good local suggestions (SF, if that is your current  
locale), but search "mac repair" on yelp.com and you'll have some  
numbers to call and get what you need.
If you get it mail order, OWC is always a good place to get things:
<http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/1394B6912C/>
or newegg:
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx? 
Submit=ENE&N=40000001&Description=firewire%20400%20800&name=Cables>

On Nov 11, 2008, at 6:50 PM, info at zoekeating wrote:

> well, i'm desperate and need another stage machine before i fly to  
> spain.
> so i went and bought the new macbook pro.
>
> astonishingly, they had no firewire 400 to 800n adaptors or cables  
> in the apple store.
> so until i find one i can't actually use the darn thing with my MOTU.
>
> not to mention transferring data from my old macbook pro, which  
> doesn't have firewire 800.
>
> ACK.
>
> you'd think for the money that there would be cables of some kind  
> with the machine?
>