How to connect macbook pro with firewire toms guide forum. For all macs that match specific usb or firewire capabilities courtesy of s ultimate mac sort click the capability of interest right column. Discover over 1520 of our best selection of hard drive cable macbook pro on with topselling hard drive cable macbook pro brands. Macbook pro has a new eighthgeneration quadcore intel processor with turbo boost up to 4. The port needs to have a lightning bolt next to it. Mar 19, 2020 macbook pro introduced in 2011 through 2015. Macbook pro have firewire 800 and sd card slots, but expresscard is gone, left for the 17. Mbp 2011 e videocamera con cavo firewire 94 macbook. The inch macbook pro also keeps its firewire 800 port, so thunderbolt is more of an added. How to effectively link presonus firepod firewire 400 to. Mar 06, 2011 hey guys, i upgraded to the 2011 macbook pro last week, and ive been having some trouble backing up my files to my external. In order to do this, you will need a male mini display port to female hdmi adapter and an hdmi cable of your choice.
Basically, the card works for some time, and then suddenly freezes the led that indicates that the card is on, turns off and restart it, after which no sound is played. The problem is that i cant tell whether that external sound card you linked to is firewire 800 or firewire 400. I will buy buying an older mac that will do the job. Besides thunderbolt, the inch macbook pros port spread remains the same as on prior versions. Best value hard drive cable macbook pro great deals on hard. To provide support for devices that still run fw800 port, you will need an adapter to use with the new thunderbolt ports. Firewire cable 9pin4pin cable, firewire 800 9pin to firewire 400 4pin for canon panasonic sony camera camcorder connect to apple imac 27 macbook pro computer. Ieee 94 is an interface standard for a serial bus for highspeed communications and isochronous realtime data transfer. They have the same shape, but use different symbols on the cable and port. Get answers to your questions in our photography forums. The manual says the elura 100 has 4pin connector ieee 94 compliant so you probably need a firewire 4pin to 9pin firewire 800 cable to connect it to the apple thunderbolt to firewire adapter or any firewire 800 port of a thunderbolt dock. Sd card and firewire in, expresscard out, charles w moore, book value, 2009. Oct 02, 2012 how to hook up macbook pro to a tv through hdmi. The apple thunderbolt display is a 27inch flat panel computer monitor sold by apple inc.
Why the ability to boot from thunderbolt on a mac is huge. Do the firewire ports on the early 2011 macbook pros use 4. Hey guys, i upgraded to the 2011 macbook pro last week, and ive been having some trouble backing up my files to my external. How to move data from 2011 macbook pro to a 2020 macbook pro. The 2011 macbook pro, imac, and mac mini use the light ridge thunderbolt controller, which offers twice the number of bidirectional thunderbolt channels and supports two displayport connections. Thunderbolt was introduced back in 2011 on the macbook pro and is a joint. Differences between early 2011 and late 2011 macbook pro. And the versatile touch bar for more ways to be productive. Presonus fp10 firewire 400 to firewire 800 cable apple firewire to thunderbolt 2 adapter apple thunderbolt 2 to thunderbolt 3 adapter. The drive works fine, but is very hard to plug in, i basically have to force it to connect.
I need a firewire cable to connect my 2008 macbook pro 15,4 to my 2008 imac 24 so i can use the mb as an external hd target disk mode. Ill need to run a firewire cable from an audio interface also on order, that has a 6pin connector to the fw 800 port on the mbp. Effortlessly connect your mac to a firewire device with the apple thunderbolt to firewire adapter. The older macbook pro s had mini displayport which looks the same. A brilliant and colorful retina display with true tone technology for a more truetolife viewing experience. Thats kind of overkill, however, for simply connecting a firewire music keyboard. Is there a currently available way to connect firewire to a. However, because these lines are so similar, a detailed comparison can be particularly useful to help tell them apart. Ive also got an apollo audio converter from ua that has digital io with 8 in and 8 out running on my mac pro 2012.
Besides thunderbolt, the inch macbook pro s port spread remains the same as on prior versions. Can daisy chain two apple thunderbolt displays together to get two displays. It is the higherend model of the macbook family, sitting above the consumerfocused macbook air, and is available in inch and 16inch screen sizes. Learn about the apple thunderbolt cables and adapters that you can use with your thunderboltcapable mac.
Firewire 800, thunderbolt mini displayport, baset ethernet, 2 usb 2. The inch macbook pro also keeps its firewire 800 port, so thunderbolt is. Im still using an apogee duet firewire 400 on my 2008 mac pro patched with mojave 10. Thats great news for the future of the interface, but the macbook pro still has two usb 2. Feb 24, 2011 thats great news for the future of the interface, but the macbook pro still has two usb 2. However, with the newer macbooks that use usbc, is there a firewire to usbc adapter that i can use. On transfering files between an imac and a macbook pro. Macbook pro early 2011 with thunderbolt handson engadget.
Mac pro macbook air macbook pro macos catalina tvos watchos 6 wwdc 2020 guides. On a pc youd find ports such as ps2, at, parallel and game port. Mar 28, 2020 macbook pro introduced in 2011 until 2015. Macbook pro 15 early 2011 firewire 800 apple community. I just purchased the new 2020 macbook pro and i want to transfer the information from my old 2011 macbook pro sn. The macbook pro sometimes unofficially abbreviated as mbp is a line of macintosh portable computers introduced in january 2006, by apple inc. Normally, i would have had the apple store do this since i am in my seventies, but it is closed because of the virus, so i am attempting to do it myself and need some guidance. How to clone the hard drive to a new ssd in a 2011 macbook pro.
The adapter is ideal for macbook air and macbook pro with retina display users as those computers have no firewire ports. A firewire port provides power, so the connected device usually doesnt need its own power cord. I know i will need to buy the thunderbolt to firewire cable or would a macbook pro be a better option. The usb and firewire capabilities of each recent g3 and later mac are listed below. Even internally, the late 2011 macbook pro models are almost identical with the later line only packing modestly faster processors across the board and faster graphics or larger hard drives in some models. Thunderbolt and thunderbolt 2 are not the same as mini displayport. My previous macbook pros could connect to the interface via direct input into the firewire slot, and i know that later versions could use a thunderbolt adapter.
About apple thunderbolt cables and adapters apple support. Can i hook up my new imac to my macbook via firewire and take some software from that and put it onto the imac. It was originally developed by apple and released in 1999,as firewire 400, when the very first powermac g3 was launched. There is also a separate thunderbolt port, a firewire 800 port, three usb 2. How to install an ssd in a 2011 macbook pro duration. If the thunderbolt cable plugs into the macbook more securely than the firewire, it might be worth switching over and then duct taping the firewire cable to the adapter. Along the left edge are two usb ports, a fast firewire 800 connection for quick system backups. For complete specs on a particular system, click on the name of the mac left column. Apples thunderbolt to firewire adapter enables you to connect a firewire 800 device to your thunderbolt port equipped computer.
Jan 08, 2010 i need a firewire cable to connect my 2008 macbook pro 15,4 to my 2008 imac 24 so i can use the mb as an external hd target disk mode. The older macbook pros had mini displayport which looks the same. Jun 11, 2018 im still using an apogee duet firewire 400 on my 2008 mac pro patched with mojave 10. Firewire 800 is available on the nonretina macbook pro, mac mini and mac pro. Any mac that has firewire 800, including the inch macbook pro, has the 9pin connector.
Connecting two macs to migrate data from one to another. Questions about apple thunderbolt to firewire adapter apple. Bizlander firewire high speed premium dv to firewire cable 800 94b 800400 ieee 9 pin male to 4 pin male cable 6ft for mac pro, macbook pro, mac mini, imac pc,digital cameras, slr 4. The thunderbolt 3 ports in the macbook pro and macbook air work with usbc devices, which have the same connector shape.
Low end macs safe sleep faq, dan knight, online tech journal, 2009. Many mac computers have one or more firewire 400 ports that. In terms of connectivity, theres alarming news for musicians dependent on firewire devices, since the macbook pro no longer has a firewire 400 port, offering just a single 800 interface, and the new macbook, like the macbook air, offers no firewire port at all. Thunderbolt to thunderbolt cable is the best way to go.
Which firewire cable to use to connect macbook to imac. May 06, 2020 i just purchased the new 2020 macbook pro and i want to transfer the information from my old 2011 macbook pro sn. There are a lot of different firewire cables out there, but i dont know which one to buy. My card is connected to a macbook pro with an intel 64bit processor and i have installed macosx 10. On my macbook pro, there is a useless to me firewire port sitting dormant next to it, and yet if i want to use an external monitor i actually want to use 3, so ive got usb video cards for the other 2 i have to give up the thunderbolt port.
Connecting macbook pro 20112012, macbook air 20112017 and macbook pro retina 20122017 all newer laptops have at least one thunderbolt port version 1 or 2 available. Macbook pro 15 early 2011 firewire 800 port weirdness i recently purchased an external hard drive to use with the firewire 800 port on my mbp. The problem now is that apple has dropped the firewire cable port from its systems to save space but there are still a huge number of devices out. It was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by apple, which called it firewire, in cooperation with a number of companies, primarily sony and panasonic. The problem now is that apple has dropped the firewire cable port from its systems to save space but there are still a huge number of devices out there that depend on the fw800 port. Do the firewire ports on the early 2011 macbook pros use 4pin or. The firewire 800 port provides up to 7w for bus powering your external hard drive solutions. I have a western digital passport 500gb drive, and it has firewire 800 and usb2 connections. Hello i have a problem with my firewire solo soundcard. However, because these lines are so similar, a detailed comparison can be.
345 1202 1015 761 1189 1291 415 968 855 1070 1182 904 195 796 1352 308 735 249 1100 1482 397 818 1203 1325 882 492 891 795 1474 721 544 258 770