What do you mean by "network" hard drive?
Regardless, dealnews.com is your friend.
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Jon B. - Jan 10, 2005 2:52:49 pm PST #1033 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Wolfram - Jan 10, 2005 2:56:59 pm PST #1034 of 10003
Visilurking
Hard drive that hooks directly up to a network (without needing a computer or OS running it.) I guess like a mini-server. Checking out dealnews now, thanks.
§ ita § - Jan 10, 2005 3:00:38 pm PST #1035 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Search on NAS, Wolfram -- network attached storage.
Wolfram - Jan 10, 2005 3:08:22 pm PST #1036 of 10003
Visilurking
Steph L. - Jan 10, 2005 3:25:29 pm PST #1037 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Okay, I have 2 Mac-related questions that are moronically simple, but I don't know the answers anyway:
(1) if I'm going to transfer data from my old laptop to my new iBook via a USB cable, should it be an A to A cable, or an A to B cable? [I'm aware of firewire cables; my current laptop doesn't have a firewire port.]
(2) I have DSL now. My iBook will have an AirPort Extreme card. If I want to use my DSL connection wirelessly, I need a router, correct? Like the AirPort Extreme base station? (Or a random other Mac-friendly router.) Do I need *more* than a wireless router?
Tom Scola - Jan 10, 2005 3:31:52 pm PST #1038 of 10003
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(1) if I'm going to transfer data from my old laptop to my new iBook via a USB cable, should it be an A to A cable, or an A to B cable?
I'm not aware of any reliable method of transferring data between a PC and a Mac via USB, unless you want to buy special software, (which comes with its own cable).
Moving data between a PC and a Mac with an ethernet cable is pretty straightforward, though.
(2) I have DSL now. My iBook will have an AirPort Extreme card. If I want to use my DSL connection wirelessly, I need a router, correct? Like the AirPort Extreme base station? (Or a random other Mac-friendly router.) Do I need *more* than a wireless router?
That's all you should need.
Steph L. - Jan 10, 2005 3:34:46 pm PST #1039 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Moving data between a PC and a Mac with an ethernet cable is pretty straightforward, though.
Even better!
(2) I have DSL now. My iBook will have an AirPort Extreme card. If I want to use my DSL connection wirelessly, I need a router, correct? Like the AirPort Extreme base station? (Or a random other Mac-friendly router.) Do I need *more* than a wireless router?
That's all you should need.
Dude. I had knowledge!
One more question: transferring data Mac to Mac (I have 8 GB of music on my G4 at work, and I'll be damned if I'm going to re-rip all that onto the iBook) -- USB cable? A to A? A to B? TGIF? OMGWTF?
Tom Scola - Jan 10, 2005 3:38:06 pm PST #1040 of 10003
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
transferring data Mac to Mac
Firewire cable. If you boot up your Mac, and hold down the "T" key, it will go into something called "Target Disk Mode", which means that the other Mac will think that it's an external firewire drive.
Steph L. - Jan 10, 2005 3:40:34 pm PST #1041 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Firewire cable.
Right on. Am waiting to order my iBook until after Steve Jobs' speech at MacExpo, just in case prices drop (which I don't expect, since they just dropped back in November-ish) or they add a nifty new feature like iDishwasher or something.
amych - Jan 10, 2005 3:41:13 pm PST #1042 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
iDishwasher
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