New to Mac!

[bwana]

Apologies to OP...
I gotta ask: I learnt that I will need to get a FireWire cable to import videos from my Panasonic cam and I went to IC today. I was informed that the 6-pin to 4-pin in store would not work on the iMac? Does Apple make a different type of FireWire? And I can only get this from iStore?

6pin is firewire 400, your imac has FW800. Having not tried it myself… I don't see why a fw400 to fw800 adapter wouldn't work.

I'm currently using a 2TB Time Capsule for all my Time machine backup purposes, also added a external 2TB hard drive for extra storage,

Doing the backup over the 5GHz WifI that the time capsule offers and it seems just as fast as a wired connection, seen it spike at about 22MB/s

After my cricketball incident last year I've given up on time machine. These days I rely on regular superduper backups so if there is a hdd failure I can just pop the new drive and be on my merry way.

 

[NetDude]

I'm also concerned that my cam is not listed on Apple's list of supported cameras. Should I be extremely worried about this???

There are quite a few Panasonics there but not my model?

 

[bwana]

I'm also concerned that my cam is not listed on Apple's list of supported cameras. Should I be extremely worried about this???

There are quite a few Panasonics there but not my model?

I don't think so.