On 30/08/2007, at 5:50 PM, Reg Whitely wrote:
Hi Rob
On 30 Aug 2007, at 5:11pm, Robert Howells wrote:
Would that have been a USB2 only unit ?
It would be good for data storage
but you can only boot from firewire externally .
I've got a little Western Digital 160 usb2 Passport PocketDrive
with a copy of OS X on it and it boots my MacBook, albeit a little
slower than native on the machine.
Reg
So we live to learn !
I will have to pass that bit back to one of the Guru's I extract info
from .
In practical terms USB2 for Mac is of course found to be slower that
Firewire .
Bob
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