10-17-2008, 04:21 PM
Lack of FW means you get to keep the FW Macs and use them until you can do without. PIA, but Target Disk mode has come in very handy for me a number of times.
I just replaced a Tape-using FW camcorder that died with a new one that has the Flash drive. Requires USB2 and iMovie 7 and an Intel Mac for downloading and editing. No warning anywhere about the Intel Mac need until I tried to download to the G4. Fortunately I have 2, but ow I have to transfer to the G4 after using iM 7 to load the clips into iM6 (HD) to do editing that can't be done in iM7. So be it.
I just replaced a Tape-using FW camcorder that died with a new one that has the Flash drive. Requires USB2 and iMovie 7 and an Intel Mac for downloading and editing. No warning anywhere about the Intel Mac need until I tried to download to the G4. Fortunately I have 2, but ow I have to transfer to the G4 after using iM 7 to load the clips into iM6 (HD) to do editing that can't be done in iM7. So be it.