Godfrey
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Hmm. I dunno ... I have looked through all the MBP specs from Apple and all of them from 2006 onwards seem to include FireWire ports with the single exception of the late-2008 MBP 13" model, the first time they offered the MBP in 13". Far as I can tell, all the 15 and 17 inch models have had FireWire. The first gen of 13" didn't ... it's was pretty obvious the design was derivative of the standard MacBook which don't have FW.Godfrey, very unusually, you are in error. A search of the blogs from 2-3 years ago will turn up hundreds of references.
All current MBPs have FW, which was my point: I and many others who use video and audio peripherals skipped that unibody model.
And I use only a 128GB SSD on both my machines, and do not store files on them at all: they are used only as system disks. The 128 SSDs are very reasonably priced (tho' not $67; about $325 from memory!). I use FW LaCie Ruggeds on location for images or video files, and a bunch of other FW HDDs in the studio.
I like having enough space on the startup drive to run my daily use without another drive tethered to the system all the time, and 50% free space. I plug in an external drive when I'm doing image or video processing, which isn't a much smaller % of the time. My music and video library alone is 200G ... !
Different needs, different preferences.