Hi Ken
Can't help you with the firewire but awhile back I picked up a Doro
VOIP + landline cordless phone for my other half to chat with her
friends interstate via skype.
It is still available from Dealsdirect and is very easy to set up and
use. As well as being able to use it for voip it doubles as a landline
phone
www.dealsdirect.com.au/p/doro-voip-landline-cordless-telephone
cheers
Peter F
On 27/05/2009, at 3:01 PM, Ken Jackson wrote:
Speaking of that..Hi everyone, can someone tell me where I might
find a 1TB Firewire drive for a G5 running 104.11 please.
They all seem very expensive? Also has anyone experience with a
Wireless USB headset for Skype use?
regards all,
Ken
On 27/05/2009, at 11:58 AM, Neil Houghton wrote:
on 27/5/09 8:32 AM, Ronda Brown at [email protected] wrote:
On 27/05/2009, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
On 26/05/2009, at 6:16 PM, Chris Burton wrote:
Hi Ronni and Sue
Thanks for the reply and its good to be back in the mix. It was
kind of weird not having all the wamug emails daily and it only
twigged a short while ago!!
re the usb drives, I was amazed to see such a large drive being
usb
powered now. Im going to take my MB in tomorrow and just plug it
in
and see if I can drag a couple of files across. Not bad value at
under $200 for 500gb!!
thanks again
regards
chris
Just be aware that your enthusiasm may be curbed if you ever try to
copy very large amounts of data at once (such as cloning your hard
drive!). USB 2.0 tends to choke and slow to a crawl under such
conditions. This is why a drive with a Firewire port, while more
expensive, is a much better option. It is much better at sustaining
a transfer rate.
--
I certainly agree with Peter, I personally would not purchase a USB
External Drive for backup purposes or transferring large Video
files.
Firewire is faster and more stable.
Which makes it even more annoying that Apple is now pushing you
more & more
to USB:
- Want to plug a drive to an airport extreme for network access -
it has
to be USB.
- Macbooks no longer have firewire ports
Cheers
Neil
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Albany, Western Australia
Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
Email: [email protected]
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