Migration Assistant also works via ethernet.<br><br>

<br>[color:blue]I haven't used FW400 in years. I used to use FW800 for backups, but mainly I do that wirelessly now.</font color=blue><br><br>That is okay for day-to-day backups, but with video, you need a wired solution, and for me that means eSATA.<br>It is neat, to watch a 25GB file zip by in 7 minutes, which translates into an honest 60MB/sec! There are plenty of USB/eSATA drives on the market now. My regular sneaker-net drive is a WD 2TB RAID-0 external box, which was only around $300. <br><br>Apple's connectivity policies - including burn formats - leave something to be desired.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>"Woe the nation, which has no heros. ...... Blessed the one, which needs none!" (Bertold Brecht)

good news / bad news . . . this email arrived around lunch today from a student worker in our university IT department:

the hours indicate he isn't available until Thursday. doh. i suppose that's better than a later alternative . . .

i finally have it.

very nice. and, i used it for about 20 minutes before i remember that there is not a button, per se, on the trackpad.

okay, i don't like the trackpad after all. i am used to leaving my thumb on the button while my finger uses the trackpad. well, now that "button" is part of the trackpad and the cursor doesn't know what to do when i leave my thumb on the button area. it makes the cursor a bit erratic. this thing is forcing me to have better posture darn it.

otherwise, i already think this is the best laptop since the 12" powerbook.

I tried the no button trackpad for about twenty minutes and could see that it was going to be a brain retrain problem. I could tell it was easier but my thumbs kept wanting the button.

Tell us how you feel after a week of using it. I could do with some better posture but I am usually on a couch when I use a laptop.

okay, i am fully used to it and it's just fine.

however, today was my first day back in the office since last summer. i plugged my Macbook into the second monitor i have here -- worked just swell. i added the keyboard and mouse and they worked just fine. i then went to add my cool Apple speakers i originally bought with my old Quicksilver. not happening. i forget these Macbooks don't have firewire. so my speakers have finally met the end of their life cycle. it's not worth it for me to try and buy a work around solution for 4 hours in the office a week.