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- eldridgea, on 11/13/2008, -1/+50But if you live near an Apple Store, they'll do it for free.
- lex0nyc, on 11/14/2008, -1/+35So, this is a USB cable with software? Grand.
- coreyb, on 11/15/2008, -2/+34As superior as I am with my Mac, I have never once tried on a "mock turtleneck"... All my turtlenecks are 100% authentic turtle.
- serif69, on 11/15/2008, -0/+30Whereby "notice" you mean "save a copy for themselves of", then yes.
- Psamtik, on 11/14/2008, -0/+24And notice all my porn?
- Bauer22, on 11/15/2008, -0/+21Vote Yes to Prop 00111000! Make Male To Male USB cords illegal!
- AndrewDB, on 11/14/2008, -1/+22Automatically after you plunk down 50 $.
- mizatt, on 11/15/2008, -0/+20Or someone who, you know, has been to an Apple store
- mareksoon, on 11/14/2008, -10/+29"quiet superiority" ??
I don't know many Mac users who are quiet about their (alleged) superiority. - MrSkills, on 11/14/2008, -2/+16I think the key word is "automatically".
- Spyder228, on 11/14/2008, -5/+18These guys ever heard of flash drives?
- irishmcsg2, on 11/14/2008, -0/+12Um, yeah, I've got a home network that has no problem moving files between my PC and mac.
- designev, on 11/15/2008, -0/+10Thank god.. I was worried we'd see a harmless mac story go without any mention of "fanboy".
- ATL, on 06/20/2009, -0/+9...and direct transfer is faster than using a flash drive
especially if you have, say, 30GB of data to transfer and a 4GB drive, who wants to go through that reptitive crap?
a better (cheaper) solution, if you have the know-how, is to transfer the files over a network
or... just like eldridgea said, go to an apple store... - Genma, on 11/14/2008, -2/+10for $50 you might as well just get a router/switch.
- Nephersir7, on 11/13/2008, -6/+14"All the magic sits in the filter at the middle of the cable. Yours for only $50, Welcome to the Apple side of things "-- Belkin CEO
- inactive, on 11/15/2008, -6/+14Simply insert into rectum and declare that you are, in fact, now a Mac.
- sbluetruck, on 11/14/2008, -1/+8but it's white and matches my macbook
i have to have it then! - AndrewMoyer, on 11/15/2008, -5/+11USELESS FAIL.
- ATL, on 06/20/2009, -1/+5did you READ the article?
"...the Switch-to-Mac Cable's bundled software than the dongle itself -- Belkin's custom Migration Assistant (not the OS X assistant) automatically transfers your media, files, and internet prefs..." - MtheoryX, on 11/15/2008, -0/+4Wearing a turtleneck is like being choked slowly all day long. If you are wearing a turtleneck and a backpack, it’s like a weak midget trying to bring you down!
~Mitch - spec209, on 11/15/2008, -0/+4if it transfers music libraries and playlists, contacts to addresbook automatically and mail messages etc. then its worth it.
- ctonks, on 11/15/2008, -0/+3Command + K (connect to server)
type in smb://computername/c$ - passedoutghost, on 11/15/2008, -0/+3Crossover cable? It should be faster.
- harvinator24, on 11/14/2008, -1/+4When you buy a computer, apple does a file transfer for free. If you don't live near a store you could always set up a network on your mac which takes all of 1 minute then connect to you pc, and transfer the data that way.
No need to spend money. - Zap2, on 11/15/2008, -0/+3Most likely not for the "digg" crowd.
- surfacewound, on 11/15/2008, -1/+4TrueCrypt = Porn? What porn?
- t0ny, on 11/15/2008, -0/+3I dont see how this is useless. I would never buy it but I would recommend to someone like my grandma.
- surfacewound, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2Okay I'm sorry, I'm going to try this one more time. In my first post the backslashes didn't display correctly and when I went to edit the message, it deleted the rest of the message.
Sorry for the relatively off topic post but I have a quick question for those familiar with OS X networking:
I just connected to my XP machine from my Macbook (10.5.5). Problem is, I can only connect under the following criteria:
-XP firewall must be off for PC to be visible to the Macbook, even with the file sharing exception enabled in the firewall settings.
-How do I connect to parts of my machine that aren't explicitly shared? (i.e., in Windows you could go to \PCNAMEC$, and as long as your login has permissions to that volume, it will give you access). As it is, I only know how to access a folder that I explicity enable sharing for. Even though my whole volume is shared (i.e. C$) it won't show up in the Finder, only specific folders I share from within it do.
Thanks in advance for whoever may be able to help. - fasda, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2what about the usb hard drive a lot of people have now a days hell since i got it i barely keep media on my computer
- inactive, on 11/15/2008, -3/+5I don't understand this. Am I missing something? I've used both for years and now I am really second guessing myself. Was this article supposed to be on the Onion?
- surfacewound, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2Excellent, I knew there had to be some equivalently simple command to do the same thing, thanks.
- surfacewound, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2Sorry for the relatively off topic post but I have a quick question for those familiar with OS X networking:
I just connected to my XP machine from my Macbook (10.5.5). Problem is, I can only connect under the following criteria:
-XP firewall must be off for PC to be visible to the Macbook, even with the file sharing exception enabled in the firewall settings.
-How do I connect to parts of my machine that aren't explicitly shared? (i.e., in Windows you could go to PCNAMEC$ ( - t0ny, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2With the Macbook Pro at least you dont need a crossover cable the port is autosensing so any cat5e cable would do the trick. :)
- 1shawn, on 11/15/2008, -3/+5I don't run Windows on my Mac, thank you very much. Those that do need access to Windows-specific applications can just use VMware or Parallels. There superior apps to most Windows apps written just for the Mac.
- passedoutghost, on 11/15/2008, -1/+3That's what she said.
- aforsberg, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2totally. Try it. See how well it works.
- KSUdesigner, on 11/15/2008, -1/+3The problem with "switchers" is that even if they could figure out how to connect to the other computer through a network, they don't know exactly what they need to transfer over or where to put it.
- designev, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1I was simply responding to his claim of the mac being "overpriced garbage".
Regarding the adapter? Who knows.. adapters/cables are always expensive. And sure.. the adapter quite possibly is overpriced.
I agree.. take your system to the Apple Store and they'll get you up and running for free. - inactive, on 11/15/2008, -1/+2The (toyota) vs (audi) analogy is a bit off as it only works if you really think your mac is an audi.
Closer analogy: (toyota) vs (mazda with nice paint finish). - MScrip, on 11/14/2008, -1/+2While 32GB flash drives are $60... it would be a lot harder for a non-technical person to copy raw files to and from a flash drive, and have good results. Can you imagine the mess someone could make by dragging files from computer to computer? This Belkin cable is supposed to transfer files and setting and stuff.
- ATL, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1say you have one of those vehicles that comes with free maintenance
you could "overpay" and buy a contraption that will perform that maintenance for you
or you could go to the dealer (apple store) and they do it for free
that's how - inactive, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Sounds like a terrorist plot to get into the White House on January 21.
White House Movers: "Oh! It's a Mac! Check out the dongle. Put it in Obama's office."
Terrorist: "Hehehehehe." - pnrl, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1I suppose this device also contains software that copies some system settings and translates system-specific folder names.
- geodescent, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1That mysterious 300GB file on your HD sure looks inviting...
or...
***** it just image the whole drive and dig through the data later. - ATL, on 06/20/2009, -1/+2yeah that works great if you know what you are copying
lots of people dont know how to copy their settings, favorites, or whatever else it was that they advertise that the accompanying software will transfer
and there are people who will pay more money to make life "easier" (read: mac users), so I can see why belkin made this thing and it will probably sell
Now, I would laugh very hard if the made a "Belkin Switch-to-Linux cable" - inactive, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1aka dido.
- ethana2, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Don't get in nonsensical flame wars on engadget, it might hit Digg.
I was tired. I shouldn't have been behind the wheel of an internet. - jwdav, on 11/15/2008, -1/+2I have to assume the software includes Outlook to Apple Mail transfer, something that requires a $10 program called O2M right now. O2M works well, but it does kind of depend upon the PC user being able to present a clean structure to the program, or be capable of organising it before migration.
If they have software that can move Outlook and documents over even if the PC user has a complete mess on the PC, it would be worth the $50.
Plus you can't exactly use a normal male to male USB cable to move info between two computers. USB does not have FireWire's capability to connect two hosts on the same bus and it doesn't support TCP/IP even if it did . The capability to migrate from computers that don't have GB Ethernet or FireWire could be useful. -
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