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Mac Set Up Assistant - Target mode . . .?
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"Apple simplicity lets you add a Power Mac G5 to your creative studio without days of downtime configuring a new system. The new Mac OS X setup assistant helps you effortlessly move user accounts, system preferences, documents and applications from an old Mac to a new Power Mac G5 — and the transfer is FireWire fast."
So presumably Apple are supplying a FireWire lead with the chunky connectors on both ends, and instructions how to set your old Mac into Target mode . . . ?
Does this fictionality - to move/update accounts already exist in 10.3.4 or will it be in 10.3.5 which will presumably ship with the speed-bumped G5's?
I'm not knocking this facility - it will be just the thing if I buy my mother a new eMac - and she can transfer her existing account and Applications from her now aging iMac, without me having to actually visit . . . !
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Fair enough
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?...40609135313868
but I did make some new valid points - it wasn't just a clone thread - yawn . . .
Those fireWire cables with a chunky plug on both ends are not the ones Apple supplied thus far - I hope the do include on in the box . . .
And it would be really nice is the Set Up assistant is also available as an App, as it obviously won't be supplied with her 1GHz eMac . . .
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Thanks for the link...I hadn't seen the screen shots yet!
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Originally posted by booboo:
Those fireWire cables with a chunky plug on both ends are not the ones Apple supplied thus far - I hope the do include on in the box.
Its just a regular 6-pin Apple firewire cable, so I'm not sure what you mean...
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Originally posted by sandsl:
Its just a regular 6-pin Apple firewire cable, so I'm not sure what you mean...
All the Apple-included FireWire cables I've had with iMac's/eMac's/G4's have been the kind with a small connector on one end and a bigger ('chunky') connector on the other end - i.e. the type used for connecting DV cameras to the Mac, not the (symmetrical)) kind used for interconnecting 2 Mac's . . .
(Last edited by booboo; Jun 13, 2004 at 05:47 PM.
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Originally posted by booboo:
All the Apple-included FireWire cables I've had with iMac's/eMac's/G4's have been the kind with a small connector on one end and a bigger ('chunky') connector on the other end - i.e. the type used for connecting DV cameras to the Mac, not the (symmetrical)) kind used for interconnecting 2 Mac's . . .
I'm glad Apple does this. When I bought my iMac DV, it was really handy to use the included 6-4 pin FireWire cable with the camcorder, especially because the cables cost around $70 CAD at the time. The FireWire hard drive and CD-RW that I later purchased came with their own 6-6 pin FireWire cables.
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