Star Apple Updates iMac, Mac Mini
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Sep 2006 14:12 UTC
Apple Apple has quietly updated its Macintosh product line today. The iMac line is now all Merom (Core 2 Duo) based, and a new 24" model has been introduced. The iMac line now starts at USD 999 or EUR 999.01 (the cent does it) for the 17" model. The Mac Mini line receives a processor upgrade, but prices remain the same.
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RE[3]: not a bad price, but....
by Morgan on Thu 7th Sep 2006 04:58 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: not a bad price, but...."
Morgan
Member since:
2005-06-29

Never mind, you have your backup. You'll try to start from it. Oops. Its USB. Can't boot from USB, only Firewire.

Try again. I booted my Mac Mini G4 off of my USB 2.0 backup drive more than once. I even installed and ran OS X from the USB drive with the internal drive wiped clean.

You need to learn to troll better.

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alcibiades Member since:
2005-10-12

"Note also that USB drives do not allow booting Power PC based Macintoshes under any version of Mac OS X: this is not a SuperDuper! limitation, but one of the OS. If you would like to boot from a backup stored on an external drive, and have a Power PC based Mac, please purchase a Mac compatible FireWire drive."

This is from

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

And I suppose they know what they are talking about? I do not troll. And what was described is a real experience.

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Gryzor Member since:
2005-07-03

He may be trolling about I don't know what, but PowerPC Macintosh have no ability to boot from USB devices.
Only *some* firewire drives (some Firewire have had problems booting, Lacie, IOmega, Maxtor, WD are known to work, ymmv).

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Morgan Member since:
2005-06-29

Then please tell me how it was that I was able to do it. I didn't have any special driver, it was 10.4 Tiger on G4 mini. It was a cheapo USB 2.0 case with a 40gb Fujitsu notebook drive installed. The only connection was USB, there was no firewire in sight.

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