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Re:Jobs responds to outrage over MacBook's missing FireWire by gstar on Friday October 17, 2008 @05:34PM (#336031)
Target disk mode saved my ass just last night.

But I'm all for progress. Also, if you consider the waste that went into fitting almost every single mac since 1999 with unused firewire ports, it makes you cringe.

If you have a pro audio interface or pro camcorder, you probably want a macbook pro anyway (just a shame they don't do one in 13")

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Re:Jobs responds to outrage over MacBook's missing FireWire by tlrobinson on Friday October 17, 2008 @06:07PM (#336056)
Target Disk Mode is indeed an awesome feature of every Mac with Firewire since ~2000.

Someone should hack together a "USB Target Disk Mode" live-CD based on Linux or something. Surely it's possible.

Or not? I'm not to familiar with the USB protocol, but isn't there a distinction between hosts and devices, hence the asymmetry of USB cables? (unlike Firewire)

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Re:Jobs responds to outrage over MacBook's missing FireWire by iigs on Friday October 17, 2008 @07:20PM (#336111)
It would be trivial to beat the 400/480/800mbit of FW/USB/FW800 with a LiveCD, and all of the pieces are more or less already there. Use the Gig-E wired ethernet connection.
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