Firewire Frenzy
Posted on July 18, 2010 with 0 commentsOkay, Tony. I will admit that you were right about being annoyed with the incompatibility between Macs and PCs.
The difference between you and I though, my PC admiring-friend: I don't blame Mac. I blame it on the PC World we live in. At least, in this part of California it is a PC world.
I was on a wild goose chase today looking for a firewire cable to connect a Panasonic mini DV to my MAC so I could work with the video footage in iMovie. What a nightmare. From Radio Shack to Best Buy to 30 miles away another Best Buy, then finally to the Apple store.
I brought the camera and the computer with me into all the stores, showed these to the Geek Squad members and they tell me the cable they think I need. Of course no one had that cable. The one I needed was at the Apple store. BUT.... the Apple store is swarmed by all the Apple users and wanna-be users in the silicon valley, East Bay Area and Central Valley combined, so not one blue-shirted person working there could give me the time of day in there.
Mr. Mac, please open up a store in Tracy. Don't be stingy. It would create jobs and diminish the hoops people like me have to jump through, NOT TO MENTION the mileage we have to put on our vehicles ALL to make use of the iMovie program with the footage on our camcorders.