Is Apple phasing out Firewire? It certainly seems that way: two of the latest laptops, the Macbook and the Macbook Air, both ship without the Apple-invented technology, and the iPod, arguably Apple’s flagship product, hasn’t supported the technology for years (except for charging).

This leaves a rather gaping hole in migrating from one Mac to another. The old way of doing it was to reboot the old Mac in “Target Disc Mode:” holding down the “T” key to turn it into a Firewire drive. The newer Mac would detect the Target Disc and copy the Mac’s programs, documents, and most importantly, settings, passwords, and preferences.

But how to migrate a Mac without Firewire? Various options past the break.

Well, that’s a kick in the pants. Apple giveth, and Apple taketh away. At today’s MacBook event, Apple announced (amongst other things) that the new MacBooks are finally getting an honest-to-goodness graphics card: the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M. But did they really have to remove FireWire capabilities to make room for the card? It’s true. Well, more »