Inside the new MacBooks: FireWire, USB, and the NVIDIA Controller
October 17th, 2008
Prince McLean, AppleInsider
Apple’s new MacBook and MacBook Pro models contain more innovation than just their case design, graphics, and the improved accessibility of their internals. Here’s a look at other details related to FireWire, USB, and the new NVIDIA-based controller that replaces Intel’s chipset.
Inside the new MacBooks: FireWire, USB, and the NVIDIA Controller
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Can you go into target mode with USB 2.0 ?
I don’t think you can from the people who are complaining about it, that’s a firewire function.
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Firewire supports transmitting additional data about the device itself that USB doesn’t support. My understanding is that feature is necessary for TargetMode to work, otherwise simple file transfer is functionally the same.
One of the feature that always made apple laptops outstanding was the “Target Mode”. I guess we are getting to the point where the line is getting blurry between mac (os x) laptops and windows laptop (much cheaper).
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