I have an eMac 1GHz and iMac 400, and tonight felt a good time to backup important stuff, and as I didn't have a crossover cable at all, transferring 8GB over my 10baseT network wasn't looking to be much fun.
However!
I didn't know until taking a look at the kbase article at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42717 that now the newer eMacs and some iMacs have autosensing for crossover/straight through cables. Not only that, quite a few other macs do now too.
I'd seen even as recently as a month ago advice posted in forums online that mentioned only gigabit ethernet macs have this autosensing, and was repeating it in my own mind - going straight to the source saved me several hours copying :). So for those who may need it sometime in the future none of the following need crossover cables:
Power Mac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) and later Xserve and later Power Mac G5 PowerBook G4 and later
iMac (17-inch 1GHz) eMac (ATI Graphics) iBook (Dual USB) and later AirPort Base Station (Dual Ethernet) AirPort Extreme Base Station
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