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    Firewire 400 vs. 800

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by vaio_boi, Sep 25, 2006.

  1. vaio_boi

    vaio_boi Notebook Evangelist

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    First of all, I wish that Macbooks would have firewire ports. Anyways, for the MBP firewire, it is 800 but an external HDD I want to buy is 400. Would it be compatible?
     
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    uh, the 15" mbp only has firewire 400, but the 17" mbp has both a 400 and 800 firewire port.

    and also, the macbook does have firewire 400
     
    RadcomTxx, Sep 25, 2006
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    I believe just like USB 2.0 is backward compatible with USB 1.1, that firewire 800 is backward compatible with 400, pretty much everything these days are backward compatible with an eariler version of itself.
     
    xbandaidx, Sep 25, 2006
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    except that the firewire 400 and 800 port are different
     
    RadcomTxx, Sep 25, 2006
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    Of course, but there are many companies out there that make adapters for that.
     
    xbandaidx, Sep 25, 2006
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