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Old Aug 8, 2009 | 9:06 am
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Originally Posted by caspritz78
If you have to Macs buy a TimeMachine harddrive from Apple. Not the cheapest but definitely the easiest backup method for Macs.

I bought a WD MyBook for my Mac and use the TimeMachine software but if I had to buy another external harddrive for my Mac I would buy a TimeMachine Harddrive from Apple.
thanks to both of you ^ and i messed up just a bit.....the old laptop is fw400 not fw800 (post fixed).

my folks have a 500 gb time machine and while it's nice as it's both an airport base station and hard drive, it is just so bloody slow backing up wirelessly (even after the initial back-up ) and at&t just sent me a new wireless router as my (really really) old dsl modem couldn't see anything wireless so that's why i'm looking at an external drive (and then backing up with time machine as i do now).

i think i'm gonna start looking at fw drives* and even if it is fw 800, i have a fw400-fw800 cable which i could use on the old laptop


*my existing external drive has both fw400/800 and a usb port so who knows, maybe i'll get lucky
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