plinden said:
USB 2.0 is much faster than firewire 1.0. i dont know if the new imac has firewire 2? does any1
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Switching from PC to Mac... question
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USB 2.0 is much faster than firewire 1.0. i dont know if the new imac has firewire 2? does any1
Actually, Firewire (1394a) is usually faster than USB 2.0 for large data transfers. USB has a large communications overhead that cuts into its ability to move data. Firewire 800 (1394b) is even faster, but not many people use it, especially on the PC side of things.pianodude123 said:
I just moved about 2 1/2 gigs to my new powerbook (my first mac - Yay!!) today from a pc laptop and it took about 4 minutes. That should be plenty fast for you. 40 Gigs would take 64 mins at that rate. You most likely have an ethernet cable around somewhere.
Do you want to spend ages faffing about trying to make something work, or going out to buy cables, when you can do it easily with stuff that's easy to get.
Speed is not just about data transfer rate - it's also about the set up time.
Do you want to spend ages faffing about trying to make something work, or going out to buy cables, when you can do it easily with stuff that's easy to get.
Speed is not just about data transfer rate - it's also about the set up time.
A ) Go to your game store, or whatever, and get a Xbox Link Cable. This is a crossover ethernet cable.
B ) Go to System Prefs, to Sharing, and turn on Windows Sharing. Write down the IP address of your mac.
C ) Go to Search in Windows, enter the IP address. After a few seconds it will find it, click it and log into it using your account name and its password. Drag everything off of the PC onto the Mac.
It will take about an hour or two at most this way. Its the FASTEST way if you dont have Firewire.
Good Luck and Enjoy
(Unless you wanna get a Firewire enclousure and stick your PC drive in that, that'd work too.)
B ) Go to System Prefs, to Sharing, and turn on Windows Sharing. Write down the IP address of your mac.
C ) Go to Search in Windows, enter the IP address. After a few seconds it will find it, click it and log into it using your account name and its password. Drag everything off of the PC onto the Mac.
It will take about an hour or two at most this way. Its the FASTEST way if you dont have Firewire.
Good Luck and Enjoy
(Unless you wanna get a Firewire enclousure and stick your PC drive in that, that'd work too.)
Yeah, it's not supposed to, but I've had this happen as well. I think that modern NICs and OSes just don't care anymore.madmonk said:
Sorry, I agree with Raven, what's the big deal? You have to sleep, don't you? Why would you feel the need to sit there and watch the entire process? It's a one-shot deal, I think Ethernet is your easiest solution, even at 10 Mbps speed if necessary.The Black Rock said:
You're confusing bits and bytes. 10/100 Base-T ethernet speeds (and most other transport speeds) are in megaBITS per second. To get a speed in megaBYTES you have to divide by 8 (and that's theoretical peak speed so it'll be even slower than that). Lowercase 'b' means bits, uppercase 'B' means bytes, so 10 Mbps = 1.25 MBps.pianodude123 said:
I connected via crossover cable, and it works! I used a great set of instructions published somewhere on a UK site. I'll post the link when I have time.