It was the last Mac released with FireWire on board, but the Mid 2012 13" Pro had FW too, and was on sale till 2016, so technically that was the last Mac with it.
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So the Late 2008 MacBook without FireWire does not?Pretty much any model with FireWire on board, like your 2012 i5 Mac mini, qualifies as Early Intel.
*hides*
There's also the plastic Unibody MacBook (2009/2010). Annoyingly, that doesn't have FireWire either.So the Late 2008 MacBook without FireWire does not?
Even more annoyingly, they don’t have TDM via USB.
This sparked a negative reaction among consumers and elements of the press. One disgruntled customer even received an email response purportedly from Steve Jobs. This article offers a good retrospect on the removal of FireWire from MacBook range.
FEATURE: How Apple killed the MacBook, and crippled the MacBook Pro
So the Late 2008 MacBook without FireWire does not?
Well, it lacks Thunderbolt, has an ODD, can’t run Catalina (can it even run Sierra, out-of-box?), lacks Retina, has a C2D CPU, and on and on.
Well, it lacks Thunderbolt, has an ODD, can’t run Catalina (can it even run Sierra, out-of-box?), lacks Retina, has a C2D CPU, and on and on.
The presence of an ODD is a mitigator in my book.
Well, it lacks Thunderbolt, has an ODD, can’t run Catalina (can it even run Sierra, out-of-box?), lacks Retina, has a C2D CPU, and on and on.
Caps out at El Capitan.
Ahhhh yes, the MacBook No 13 of 2008.
I think you left out an “r” there…
My favourite Canadian* in his iconic role as an Iowan who works in outer-space, ascends El Capitan during some down-time. Why on earth Apple didn't rope him in to promote the OS release is a mystery, given the obvious PR potential on hand. Ah well.
*With @B S Magnet coming a very close second here.
*With @B S Magnet coming a very close second here.
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This is disturbingly funny and I laughed through the entire thing (especially that polaroid with his pre-KHAAAAAN expression photoshopped in there).
Fun fact: at his university alma mater, I’ve gone into the stacks on campus to find basically the university directory (not a phone directory, but a directory) from ca. 1952, to find, specifically, the name “William Shatner” in there. And yes, it was in there, both disturbingly and amusingly.
😊 Awww, thank you! (But there are almost 40 million other living Canadians — several of them amazing, far more wonderful people than I am!)
Sure was! It’s part of the reason I still use my 2012 quad i7 as my home server, so I can keep using an old FireWire drive I’ve had for ages.Pretty much any model with FireWire on board, like your 2012 i5 Mac mini, qualifies as Early Intel.
Also, wasn’t the late 2012 Mac mini the last Mac to roll out with FireWire still on board?
You're the only Canadian I know that contributes to making this place great
(No offence intended to other Canadians!)If all else fails, there's the Thunderbolt-to-FireWire adapter. (I wonder if you can boot from a drive attached to that!)
You know, that's a darn good question - I should give that a try one of these days and find out!
I can’t test it right now, but having done something like this a couple of years ago when the OEM SSD in my now-screen-dead rMBP semi-failed (and would go on to hard-fail a couple of months later before replacing it and, a month later, I ruined the screen), I tried a data retrieval using that adapter, to connect to my early 2011 MBP, via target disk mode. The adapter was on the rMBP side, obviously. Even though I have two of those adapters, there was no point to cap each end of the FW800 cable with one (though I suppose I could have, just to learn what might or might not happen).
As memory serves, this worked, but I would not be able to tell you which protocol icon appeared on the target mode screen saver.