If its not too late - tell your contact to buy a flash memory card of however many Gbs they need and put it in a USB Card reader plugged into the iMac. The speed and silence is brilliant and the costs are very reasonable!
Colin On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 2:08:13 AM UTC, Al Poulin wrote: > > > > On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 8:07:49 PM UTC-5, ValterV wrote: >> >> Il giorno 16/01/15 00.36, "Bruce Johnson" ha scritto: >> >> >> A user group member wants to buy an external hard drive to back up her >> old >> >> iMac with 10.4 Tiger. >> >> > any USB drive should work on any USB-capable Mac. >> >> Most likely. >> >> But that iMac better have USB 2.0 ports, otherwise USB 1.1 slowness will >> make the drive almost useless. >> If the iMac only has USB 1.1 ports, a Firewire drive would be a better >> (altough costlier) choice. >> >> > That's a great reminder. Thanks everyone. I'm passing this on to the user > group member. > > Al Poulin > -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
