[Cube] FireWire 400/800 Cable ...

[Luis Meleiro]

Gary, thanks for poppin' in! 
 
In fact, the lack of a FW port is not the main reason for me to gave up upon new models. If you take a closer look to the Tech Specs you'll notice the following: 
 
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory (3) 
(3) Memory avalable to Mac OS X may vary depending on graphics needs. Minimum graphics memory usage is 256MB. 
 
I've never liked the idea of sharing the GPU memory with the computer memory. Don't ask why, but I always get the feeling that users may lose computing performances with VRAM shared. 
 
Anyway, I appreciate the precious hint! 
 
LM

 
>>>On Thu, 5 de Mar de 2009 at 14:27, Gary Lauterback <garylauterback at earthlink.net> wrote:

>LM,

>A cable exits that is FW 400 on one end, and the FW 800 on the other.  
>You don't have to loose the FW 400 devices in order to have one of the 
>new iMacs.  We sell these cables in the store where I work.
>I've used such cable many times to connect the newer iMacs to older 
>platforms for Data Migration.  Works great.
>
>Thought I'd share ...
>
>Gary

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