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Old 12-28-2011, 10:15 AM
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Boot Macbook Air from SD backup

As everyone knows, a Macbook Air has two USB ports (and a Thunderbolt port) but no Firewire port. Since SD backups will almost always boot a Mac via Firewire, but only sometimes via USB ports, I wondered if I could boot my new Air via USB SD backup.

It worked! (mid-2011 Air, i7 processor, SD 2.6.4, build 89; Hitachi G-Drive mini)

Just FYI.

Last edited by Zarkov; 12-28-2011 at 10:19 AM. Reason: Added drive info
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Old 12-28-2011, 10:53 AM
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USB should work on Intel Macs (assuming full drive compatibility), but not on Power PC Macs (6+ year old models). USB does sometimes have power issues, though, because drives are power hungry and ports don't provide much.
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