Hope I picked the right forum (thought that me being 10.6 might provide admittance)....feel free to move, if not.

My daughter has two Macs. One is a G4 (AGP Graphics). I believe it's the 350 processor. She also has an Intel MacBook (1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo) running OSX 10.5.8.

She'd like to get rid of the G4 this weekend (Translation: stash it in my attic) and has asked if she'd be able to transfer files when she gets here. She won't be bringing the monitor so I thought "Target Disk".

However, I'm now not certain that that will work. Am I right or wrong?

If it won't work in target is there any other way to get the G4 to see either her MacBook or my iMac (2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) running 10.6.5

ryck

Update: I may have found the answer here although I still have a question.

The instructions talk about firmware and software being up to date. I'm pretty sure the firmware is fine (the G4 used to be mine) but I'm not certain about the OS. I can't check with her right now as she's unavailable, so I'll just ask: "Suppose the G4 OS is not the latest version...will that be a show-stopper, or just affect transfer performance?"

Last edited by ryck; 12/23/10 05:07 PM.

ryck

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