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UH...hasn't this been around for a while??? I used something similar in 2004 when I made the switch from Windows to Mac...No big news here....

Nov 12, 08 - 07:00 pm Comment from: Mr. Reeee

Yeah, Move2Mac (Detto Technologies) has been around for quite a while. It's a special USB cable and software. They look about the same, except that Belkin has better graphics!

http://www.detto.com/mac-file-transfer.html

Or you could just take your pc into the apple store with you when you purchase your mac, they transfer all of your files for free, and you save $50 bucks. But hey, if PC users were smart at making a decision, they wouldn't have bought one in the first place since boot camp came out would they?

Nov 12, 08 - 09:32 pm Comment from: qka

@ duhhhhhhh

and then again, they may have an XP box that they bought before Apple went Intel. Not everyone gets a new computer every year or two.

Nor does everyone have an Apple Store conveniently located nearby.

Forgive them, they knew not what they were doing. But some are getting smarter.

--- written on a PowerBook G4

Nov 12, 08 - 09:36 pm Comment from: HotinPlaya

@gka and Duhhhhhhhhhhh

what's an Apple store?

mike in Mexico

Nov 12, 08 - 10:26 pm Comment from: binarypackrat

@ HotinPlaya
Touche!

Nov 13, 08 - 02:31 am Comment from: ken1w

$50 for a USB cable with a rectangular tab in the middle, plus some software? I guess Belkin is looking to the future, when all new Macs will no longer be able to use FireWire Target Disk Mode.

@ken1w
Or at most PCs that still don't have FireWire.

("MDN Magic Word" was "fire." How fitting, eh? )

Nov 13, 08 - 08:29 am Comment from: Sixvodkas

I did a FW vs USB 2.0 test after installing a TB drive in my Aluminum iMac, and USB 2.0 took about an hour longer than FW did to move the same amount of data, using the same HD in the same enclosure and using the same computer.


Transferring my 700 GB of data at USB 2.0's snail-pace rate means that it's now faster to disassemble 2 computers, place the hard drives in a common machine, do the dirty work then reassemble them both.

Yay for USB 2.0.

Nov 13, 08 - 08:33 am Comment from: MacintoshSoftwareList.com

I think I will drag and drop. Save the fifty for alcohol to celebrate the move to mac.

Nov 13, 08 - 09:28 am Comment from: KingMel

Although I like Firewire a lot and prefer it to USB 2.0, it is possible that part of your speed issue may be due to Apple's implementation of USB. I recall HDD testing a few years back that showed comparable Firewire 400/USB 2.0 speeds on a PC and similar FW400 performance on a Mac for the same HDD. But the HDD performance on the Mac when connected to USB 2.0 was considerably slower.

Perhaps Apple has fixed this issue. But that is my recollection from past performance reviews.

Nov 13, 08 - 09:41 am Comment from: jtc

@MacintoshSoftwareList.com
amen to that!

Though I'll just use parallels or fusion for the whoppin 2 windows apps I use. If only they'd go mac.. I'd never go back!

@KingMel
I've done a test myself on windows with FW400 and USB2.0 though this was a good 4 years ago... I have a small portable drive with both connections so I did a copy paste test with them both. the FW400 did go a good rate faster than USB2.0 did but only buy a few minutes for a 1 GB file if I recall correctly. I try to use FW800 as much as possible now so from that to USB2.0 is like watching grass grow.

"Apple' sMacintosh"---when the 'ho ain't workin.

This cable was made available when most PCs didn't have FireWire. I still don't think Apple will kill FireWire, its a much more reliable protocol than USB2.0 and faster in performance.

Nov 13, 08 - 12:24 pm Comment from: psidoc

Is this really any different from a standard USB netowrk cable?