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The right Firewire cable?! Lost!

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forcefieldkid

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Right now I have a G5 and am about to buy a macbook, I've looked up how to transfer my iTunes collection from the G5 to the mb and it seems that migration assistant will help during setup and that all I'll need is a Firewire cable to connect the two machines.

So off I went to Amazon to add a Firewire cable to my order, but now I'm looking at loads of different types and sizes (?) and need some help to get the right one to connect these two.

Any help, much appreciated :)
 
Ah...
What are the other alternatives for this? I have over 60GB on itunes so doing it through CD's is pretty much out of the question.
 
I'd rather not add extra cost to it if it can be avoided, on a small budget with this. Would they link together through an ethernet cable?
 
forcefieldkid said:
Right now I have a G5 and am about to buy a macbook, I've looked up how to transfer my iTunes collection from the G5 to the mb and it seems that migration assistant will help during setup and that all I'll need is a Firewire cable to connect the two machines.

So off I went to Amazon to add a Firewire cable to my order, but now I'm looking at loads of different types and sizes (?) and need some help to get the right one to connect these two.

Any help, much appreciated :)
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miles01110 said:
Macbooks don't have firewire...
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Just to point out, the OP never said he was buying a new Macbook ... and it's unclear if he really meant Macbook Pro.

There are only two Macbook/Pro models that do not have Firewire. The 13" aluminum Macbook and the current 13" poly-unibody Macbook. All other Macbook/Pro's have either FW400 or FW800.

Not sure what you intend to buy, but if you do buy a 'book with Firewire, you can definitely network via FW or use Target Disk Mode. The type of cable you need depends on whether you have FW400 or FW800 ports. FW400 uses 6-pin and FW800 uses 9-pin.
 
Thanks for the reply. No it certainly wont be a new model, I have a list of 5/6 models that I'm looking at for decent used prices. Thanks for the Firewire info, will check the specs of the models listed and go from there. Kind of.. 'panic posted' if you like as I was trying to do a few things at once!
 
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