Comments on: Mac OSX Migration Assistant Software

By: Marcos

Marcos — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:06:25 +0000

I gotta agree that this is a pretty lame complaint. Firewire cables are not expensive nor are they exotic. If someone paid $40 for a firewire cable, as the author did, then they are just not a wise or careful shopper.

By: El Aura

El Aura — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:31:16 +0000

It’s bit like complaining that your bottle of wine did not come with a corkscrew. Yes I know IKEA supplies you with tools when you buy their furniture but at some point you will have a whole box of duplicate tools. Same with cables, I probably have about 15 USB cables and 8 Firewire cables. Supplying a USB or Firewire cable with every Mac would just add another one to the pile.

By: barbara

barbara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:55:05 +0000

And if you happen to have an old iSight camera around from before the built-in camera–it comes with the double-ended firewire cable!

By: Po Lazarus

Po Lazarus — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:26:26 +0000

I have to agree with this complaint, since I found it while looking for a work-around for this Firewire cable requirement. Although there seems to be a cadre of elitez that have Firewire cables coming out their arses, it does seem contrary to Apple’s “ready-to-go” facade that you would require a component not included to move the contents of one Mac to another (or a network). For sure, it will not break the bank to buy one, but it’s complaint-worthy to have to halt proceedings to dig one up out of school because the Migration assistant is not flexible (even to allow Firewire to USB 2.0, for instance).

By: PcHsAmBa

PcHsAmBa — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:46:36 +0000

Just picked up a 6pin-6pin for 99 cents on clearance. Look around

By: mr.squeaky

mr.squeaky — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:02:33 +0000

“OK i have a Question when you use the program does it leave all of your info on the old computer?”

If you are asking, does the migration assistant leave all the info on your old computer, then yes. At least it is supposed to and that’s how it worked for me.

By: K_pan

K_pan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:32:29 +0000

OK i have a Question when you use the program does it leave all of your info on the old computer?

By: martyo

martyo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:15:58 +0000

Please give me a break! If you can’t afford a $20 cable you can’t afford a computer. I’ve been in the computer industry with some of the hardware “giants” and remember the days when we sold SCSI cables for astronomical prices.

Everyone thinks they should get this stuff for free these days. So, welcome India, China, Bulgaria, to destroy the industry the USA created. Now our programmers would make more money being plumbers. I’m sorry I ever got into this business. It’s ugly now and you can take the “Science” out of Computer Science. It’s all about Wall Street. Get over it.

By: hootiehoo

hootiehoo — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:22:26 +0000

Hey, you don’t need to run a FireWire cable to use Migration Assistant! You can use the network connection between the two machines.

You can even use wireless, but beware that it is very slow compared to a wired network.

hootiehoo!

By: David

David — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:22:54 +0000

I’ve just unpacked my new iMac and it’s syncing very slowly over Firewire 400. I did have a Firewire 400 cable knocking round, but sadly not a Firewire 800 cable, so it looks like I’m going to have to wait about 20 hours for the sync to complete. Which is disappointing as I want to play with my new toy; but if I didn’t have the cable, I’d have to mail-order one and wait a couple of days before I could use my new, expensive computer. Hardly earth-shattering, but a bit annoying.

I really don’t think it would cost Apple megabucks to throw in a Firewire 800 cable, in the scheme of things, particularly as the computer itself cost me 1300 quid ($2700 or so). You’re looking at less than 0.1% of the purchase cost. The damn box would have cost more than that; it’s not going to send Apple bankrupt, and it would stop me (and the rest of you) moaning.

I can’t see how USB 2 would help, as USB cables tend to be host-peripheral, and you’d need a host-host cable to connect 2 Macs, which would be even more hassle to get hold of.