FirewireYou can connect two Mac’s together via a firewire cable to maximise transfer speed between them.  Say you have a really large file on Mac 1 (source) and you want to copy it to Mac 2 (destination).  Do the following:

  1. Ensure the source Mac is turned off, and the destination Mac is turned on.
  2. Connect them together with a firewire cable
  3. Turn on the source Mac and hold the ‘T’ character down on the keyboard (not case sensitive)
  4. The source Mac will shortly display a firewire symbol on the screen.
  5. The destination Mac will now display the source Mac’s harddrive as a mounted drive – you can now browse the source and copy any files you need at lightening speed!