The Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter is now available via Apple Store Online for US$29.
The Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter allows you to easily connect your Thunderbolt-equipped Mac to a FireWire device with the Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter.
Small and compact, it connects to the Thunderbolt port on your Mac computer, giving you a FireWire 800 port that supplies up to 7W for bus-powered peripherals like hard drives and audio devices.
The Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter requires OS X v10.7.4 or later.
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More info here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Gordon M.” for the heads up.]
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Excellent! Older technology doesn’t exactly fade away overnight. How many of us have loads of Firewire and USB external drives alone? Hopefully other FireWire devices like old audio interfaces will work too.
I love it! Even though I have an MBP that still has a Firewire port, I still love the fact that I’ll be able to hook up my Firewire devices on my next Mac. 😀
This was so important to the audio world. And it’s not too expensive (by Apple standards).
The price is right in line with all their other adapters.
Isn’t that even less than buying an actual Thunderbolt cable?
Yes. Thunderbolt has a an expensive chipset at each end; this adapter has chips only at one end. So it’s priced accordingly.
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The Apple Store app via the iphone has them. Not the main Apple Store on the web.
it’s working now.
Let’s say you just coughed up $3,549 + Tax for a new 2.7GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 w/ 3.7 Ghz Turbo Boost,
8GB RAM, 768GB Flash Storage MacBook Pro with Retina display. Now you can shell out another $58 to get 1 overpriced Ethernet and 1 overpriced FireWire 800 adapter because you own nothing with Thunderturd, despite it having been on the market for 18 months.
Yes, yes, let’s all go back to expensive SCSI cables and adaptors. The good old days!
Well. For the convenience of portability, better battery life, and a thinner computer, I’m willing to drop those legacy ports.
For the increasingly infrequent times that I use ethernet or my firewire peripherals, I would MUCH rather have two dongles than thick ass ports.
My computer ALREADY HAS FIreWire 800, where’s the Thunderbolt to USB3?
No one makes FireWire CF and XQD card readers anymore and I’m forced to sip my photos through a USB2 straw while my Thunderbolt port sits unused.
Couldn’t agree more. I have FW800 already I need USB 3 for tethering my D800 and using USB 3 HDs, . When will we see an adaptor for that???
BelkinThunderbolt Express Dock has all the connections you need and then some. Should arrive in September.
This connector planned obsolescence profiteering is maddening.
Adapters should be offered to existing computer owners AT COST, and not a penny more. Otherwise Apple is merely setting up a trap for users to pay to use their existing peripherals. Pathetic.
All of this is exactly why I have not bought a new Mac in 18 months since Thunderbolt. Initially, it would have not been usable with my ‘everything else’. I’m amazed at how long this has taken for peripheral device makers to catch up and for Apple to include USB 3. Anyone out there know why so long? I don’t get it!?!? Thanks, if you can enlighten me, seriously.