new MacBook, no FireWire

[Kupe]

Originally Posted by dnanian

It shouldn't matter at all.

Thanks Dave. Yesterday for the first time I connected my Maxtor backup drive to my Intel iMac over USB rather than Firewire. The good news is my Mac booted off the Maxtor over USB with no problems.

The bad news is how slow USB 2.0 is compared to Firewire 400- at least real-world. I transferred the same large file from my Maxtor to my iMac- once while connected by USB and then switched back to Firewire and tried again. I timed them both to the second, and USB 2.0 was almost exactly one-half the speed of Firewire.

I simply can't believe Apple is abandoning Firewire (ala MacBooks) in favor of a technology that isn't even nearly as good. Sigh...

Kupe