Any Thinkpad user here using their Firewire port? What would you use it for? I read that we can make ad-hoc connection between two computers.

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think thinkpads ever came with the 6 or 8 pin flavors of firewire, only the 4 pin “i link” style plug that doesn’t do power.

    Which essentially limits them to only transferring data to devices with batteries like camcorders.

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      1 year ago

      No idea, I don’t have any ThinkPads with IEEE1394. I’m pretty sure the only laptops to come with 6 pin FireWire were Macs, with the 8 pin only appearing on PowerBooks, I believe.

      But they dropped FireWire with the first “unibody” MacBook.