What app would you refuse to give up?

[divigation]

Originally Posted by baseballboy828

You'd have to choose WiFi and USB, as Apple did on the MacBook Air (they kept bluetooth though). Those are the most universally compatible even though they aren't the best.

...if you are making a mass market machine for the average consumer, which I wouldn't do, I would make a machine for myself. So given that Apple had no choice but I do in this hypothetical, I will take Gigabit and FW800 and be quite content. Of course were I to buy an Air it would be as a second machine and so its lack of my preferred ports would not be an issue.

[baseballboy828]

I prefer using FW800 and Gigabit, but to choose only one, I can't say either. There are very few FW800 mice and keyboards that I am aware of. USB maybe suck in comparison with FW, but it works with more devices.

[divigation]

All FW400 devices work on an 800 port and we are talking about a notebook, otherwise there are no concerns for choosing, so I will take the built ins and an FW800 over being able to use usb externals. But actually the easy solution is a card slot, which then becomes wifi or usb and fw or ethernet or whatever you want it to be. So I change my answer to each category to card slot, two card slots and I have no extra needs. =P

[GadgetComa]

Hmm. How'd we veer off of the applications into hardware?

My must-have app is Omnifocus. I've not found another GTD app that fits the way I use GTD.

As for hardware, it would have to be USB and WiFi. I don't have any portable firewire devices (yet!), so USB is more practical for me. Of course, I don't have a laptop yet either!

[Raven]

Ouch, difficult. In terms of app I can't live without in my personal life, I want to say Papers; my thesis has been made so much more doable with it. But I can't do experiments if I can't eat, and the one thing that makes me - and my MBP - really, truly indispensable at work is DataRescue. If I can only pick one, it's got to be the work one.
Then again, all my experiments - and here's an answer no one else will choose - are done in ADInstruments' Chart. Nothing else can run them.
:sigh: I have to give up all my fun? Really?

...Chart.


Hardware-wise? Wifi. Hands-down, no question. I hate cables, and I'm finally going to suck it up and go early-adopter on any wireless power techs, but in the meantime....

[drgnfang]

Assuming it isn't cheating...
VMWare Fusion

On the hardware front... Ethernet + eSATA. eSATA is just superior to all other large block I/O formats, even without port multiplying technology (which really does just rock).

[lonnie]

Alright, I've given this some more thought. I couldn't really work with just on of the Creative Suite apps, and you said no to the creative suite as a whole. Arg.

I'm going with NewNewsWire