I noticed that the macbook unibody does not have firewire port.
So if I need to use firewire device, then I have to get the USB to firewire adapter for it.
I just want to get this right, if I use the adapter then that means I will get tranfer rate of general USB 2.0 speed which is 480Mb/s. Is that right?
If it is, then I'm gonna miss the higher transfer rate of firewire on old macbooks![]()
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Note that USB 2.0 has a max theoretical speed of 480Mb/s... that doesn't mean you'll ever reach that or even 1/8 that speed. At least from what I've experienced.
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Another note is USB uses cpu clock cycles, therefore if you plan to multi-task while useing the firewire, yes you will mis a true firewire port
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the old Macbook Unibodies did not have firewire.
The current Macbook white machines do not either.
All of the Macbook Pros have Firewire though... firewire 800. you might have to get and adapter to run a firewire 400 device, but there wont be any penalty in performance. -
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No firewire port on macbook unibody??
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by hwa1201, Apr 23, 2010.