on 2013-06-07 13:15 Eric Weir wrote
Another factor holding me up is that I've been planning to get a new MacBook, probably a MacBook Air, and I was surprised to find that the latter, and I believe the former, too, no longer have FireWire ports. Two of my three external drives are FireWire and would be unusable with the new computer.
it's not quite so dire — Apple Sells a Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter for $30; if you aren't using the Thunderbolt port for something else (or if the something else has a pass-through), i would pick one up; there are also some interesting (expensive) docks that give you FireWire and several other ports from one Thunderbolt connection; the Apple Thunderbolt Display has such a dock built-in
note that you can't do Target Disk Mode over USB, but you can do it over FireWire or Thunderbolt; FireWire (with the adapter) is the cheaper of those two options, and the only one that will work with pre-Thunderbolt Macs
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