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- Your Mac's Specs
- MacBook Pro 13" | MacBook Pro 13" | Mac Mini 2GHz C2D
So my wife's 1.83GHz CD MacBook died a couple of weeks ago. Instead of patching it up, she opted for me to replace it. I chose for her a 13" MacBook Pro. I love the thing and i am envious. So, our iMac had a kernel panic and my wife thought it was the HDD. we went and bought an inexpensive 500Gb Seagate External HDD. I backed up the iMac manually. The information window said it was going to take 4 hours to transfer 80Gb of info to the external HDD. My MacBook wasn't much faster. However, when i manually backed up her MBP, it took 9 minutes for 20Gb. Is there something different that is affecting the data transfer rate. shouldnt the data transfer rate for USB 2.0 be consistent on all applications?
BTW, i hooked the EHDD up via USB cable directly to each computer.
BTW, i hooked the EHDD up via USB cable directly to each computer.