if I was to get a new MacBook Pro, would I still be able to use my Firewire 400 hard drive? this drive only has 2 Firewire 400 connections and has my entire iTunes library on it. any suggestions?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Get a 400 to 800 cable. (400 one end, 800 the other).
well, it appears that the Mac Mini still has a firewire connection, but the newest MacBook Pros and MacBooks come with 2 thunderbolt ports, so, that is not going to work unless there is some way to connect firewire to thunderbolt...?
(PS) my current MacBook Pro has a Firewire 800 port, so I already have the 400 to 800 cable that I'm currently using, but, my teacher stated that firewire is obsolete now that usb 3.0 is out
Try using your Mac as a resource tool. Every body else is.
firewire is obsolete now that usb 3.0 is out
Nonsense. It is not obsolete until a long time after no more FireWire devices are being made, new. And that is certainly not the case today.
Any FireWire equipment you own still performs perfectly well. I expect to buy FireWire external drives for the forseeable future.
I have devices that do not support USB-3. USB-3 has too much overhead for my liking. USB-3 also seems to be having trouble with Hubs and cabling.
well, I don't like USB 3 because I was having some issues using one of my parents iPhones on the 'blue' usb port on my dad's toshiba laptop. the way I resolved that was by using a USB 2.0 port instead.
Firewire device connections?
