New MacBook which does have Firewire - YES!

What may have been missed by many here is that the MacBook White, which is offered on Apple's website new, still has built-in Firewire. If Firewire is important to you, it is still there. Note the specs:
http://www.apple.com/macbook/white/specs.html

Here's an interesting note about the old (new?) white MacBook. I was discussing this lack of firewire situation with a salesperson at the Apple store here in Ginza. I asked him how long the whitebooks would be available. He said that they would be available as long as supplies would last. They are not being built any more. I purposed to him that I would like to buy a new portable Mac sometime before the New Year. He said that he couldn't guarantee that they (the white macbooks) would be available through the next month. I don't want to buy one of these portable (hence, drop-able) machines used or refurbed. So, to keep the firewire port on my new MacBook, I have to buy a new (white) one asap (sorry, that's impossible) or give up firewire on a new, aluminum one (also impossible). The form factor of the MacBookPro is just too big for me and I do not want to spend the extra money just to get a firewire port that I use everyday.
I am hoping for a rev B version of the aluminum MacBook to show up but I know that this may be a fool's hope.
It was interesting to watch the salesperson's face continue to drop and finally fade to a frown as I spoke with him. I didn't criticize him or try to make him feel bad but both of us realized that he didn't have a good answer to give me. He actually tried to use the "all the new HD cameras have USB ports" argument that we all have heard but I told him that that wasn't really true and, if that was what Apple was really thinking, ("..everyone go out and buy a new HD video camera to work with our port-crippled Macs") then why didn't they also include something to output that HD video to (i.e. Blue-ray drive)?
I am still totally amazed at Apple's decision here and the lack of response to all the critical comments about this poor judgement on their part.

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