[UniMacTech] New MacBooks and Firewire

[David Wikeley]

Hi all,
    We have just had our first MacBook Pro Aluminium case arrive. Very nice, pity about the lack of FW 400 and the size of the display adapter port (new adapters needed).

I was able to migrate a user from an old iBook G4 14" via Target Disk Mode using an external FW case with both FW 400 and FW 800 ports. Took about 30 minutes to migrate 8Gb of data, this seems slow compared to before. But at least we can transfer via TDM from older iBooks and MacBooks that don't have a FW 800 port.


On 12/11/08 11:13 AM, "Jeff Kirby" <jeff.kirby at flinders.edu.au> wrote:

It seems that Apple wants us to buy Macbook Pros (FW 800 ) for corporate use
(where imaging etc is norm).

However, you don't need target mode on the new Macs as much, as the hard
drive drops right out, which is infinitely easier to handle than a Target
Mode mac. Just get a Sata -> USB dock ( many are available like this one
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=7790
) and Bobs your uncle, working hard drive mounted on your desktop. No plug
packs for the Mac etc.

This will negate the need for our target mode usage.

Then there is NetRestore/NetBoot options also (from http://www.bombich.com/
), which apparently is the best way to deploy images to Macs (it's quite
snazzy I must say)




Cheers,



 Jeff Kirby
 Network Support Officer
 Computer Services Unit/Computer Mediated Learning Unit
 Faculty of Science and Engineering
 Flinders University of South Australia
 GPO BOX 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia

 PH : #5845 or 0401 148 928


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Subject: [UniMacTech] New MacBooks and Firewire

Hi all,
    Before we purchase some new MacBooks, what are others doing about the
lack of a Firewire port on the new MacBooks?

How does Target Disk Mode work, we use this mode on a daily basis to set-up
new MacBooks. We boot off a system on the external drive and clone a system
to the new computer, very quick.

Does this mean that all our external  Firewire drives (no USB ports) will
just sit on the shelves to gather dust. Is there a third party USB to
Firewire adapter we can use.

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David Wikeley
IT Manager
Faculty of Health Science
University of Tasmania
43 Collins Street
Hobart, Tasmania.
T: 03 62264751
W: www.healthsci.utas.edu.au/

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T: 03 62264751
W: www.healthsci.utas.edu.au/
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