Good USB-C Transfer Cable - Laptop to Laptop

**BradC** · 15th May 2024, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by Tins

I should probably stay out of this as my PC experience is way out of date, but what you say about USB isn't the case on a Mac. Migration Assistant works fine, albeit slowly, on USB-C on Macs. It also works over WiFi, even over different networks post El Capitan. Thunderbolt is fastest.

Guess I shouldn't assume....

Macs have had Thunderbolt (which is just another peer to peer protocol much like ADB & Firewire rather than master/slave) well prior to USB-C. The dedicated USB-C to USB-C link is a superset of USB but not quite Thunderbolt. ADB was on the first Mac, so Mac's have done Peer-2-Peer natively forever.

If I made a mistake in assuming it was that Saitch didn't have 2 Macs. I'd wager I didn't make a mistake because Apple make it so easy, and so well publicised that it's not something you'd miss if you had an old Mac and just bought a new Mac.

Happy to be corrected however if Saitch does happen to have 2 Macs.

**Tins** · 15th May 2024, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by BradC

Macs have had Thunderbolt (which is just another peer to peer protocol much like ADB & Firewire rather than master/slave) well prior to USB-C. The dedicated USB-C to USB-C link is a superset of USB but not quite Thunderbolt. ADB was on the first Mac, so Mac's have done Peer-2-Peer natively forever.

Originally Posted by BradC

Happy to be corrected however if Saitch does happen to have 2 Macs.

Nah. Spends too much time with V8Ian.

**Tins** · 15th May 2024, 07:38 PM

Should add, my last PC ran Win98. I have been on Mac since OS9. I do run Win7 and 10 on emulation and BootCamp occasionally. Can't do anything on a Nanocom without Windoze.

**BradC** · 15th May 2024, 07:48 PM

I'm with you there. My last PC was Win95. I still need Windows, but I've been virtualising it on Linux since Win98 (I wrote the touchpad/absolute mouse driver for Win4Lin back in the late 90's). Same with MacOS since OS7 (which I loved). I even compiled a linux kernel on a Mac IIci (it took 3 days). Love my Apple gear, love my AMD/Intel gear as long as it's not running windows.

I've always found Windows in a VM is faster and more stable than Windows on the bare metal. I just have as little to do with it as possible (these days its AutoCAD, Revit, Altium and Office 2010).

**Tins** · 15th May 2024, 08:30 PM

Sitting in front of a 13,2 iMac,3.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 running macOS Sonoma 14.5 via OCLP. Dreading the dat  drops intel support completely, and it must be coming, given it's M4 now. Well, it is on iPad, and WWDC is just weeks away.

**Saitch** · 16th May 2024, 07:05 AM

A thousand apologies to you erudite gentlemen. Indeed, i do not have a Mac.

Also, I will be transferring from a W10 to a W11 version, but can't see an issue there.

**Tins** · 16th May 2024, 08:05 AM

Originally Posted by Saitch

A thousand apologies to you erudite gentlemen.

Oi! I resemble that remark

Originally Posted by Saitch

Also, I will be transferring from a W10 to a W11 version, but can't see an issue there.

I can see quite a number, but probably best left alone....

Ughh!

**Saitch** · 16th May 2024, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by Tins

Oi! I resemble that remark

I can see quite a number, but probably best left alone....

Ughh!

The old Samsung laptop is thirteen years old and can't upgrade to W11.

**BradC** · 17th May 2024, 01:24 AM

Originally Posted by Saitch

The old Samsung laptop is thirteen years old and can't upgrade to W11.

Take that as a blessing!

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 17th May 2024, 05:55 AM

I find Mac owners are quite like Non Qlders....
wouldnt touch windoze/XXXX with a barge pole but happy to tell us EXACTLY whats wrong with both....

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