BEST METHOD OF DIGITIZING FROM DV DECK TO NEW MAC MINI

Hi and thanks for the help. I've got a brand new mac mini on the way and I've been using a JVC SRDVM600 player/recorder as my mini DV source machine to digitize to my old mini through its 4 pin IEEE 1394 firewire port. Now the new mini has firewire 800, Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 ports. For digitizing/capturing from the JVC is there any quality difference between the 3 ports since the source is the 4 pin DV firewire and I'll need adaptors to get the media into the mini no matter which port I use? This will be for editing with fcpx.

Exactly, the speed will be the same no matter what cables you use. The Firewire to Thunderbolt adapter was created for people who have Firewire devices that need to connect to a newer computer with Thunderbolt and no Firewire ports. Speed is always based on the slowest connection, even though Thunderbolt is rated at 10 Mbs, the fastest it can go is .8 Mbs dictated by the Firewire connection from the deck.
I have a MacBook Pro mid-2011 that has both Thunderbolt and Firewire 800 ports, so luckily I don't need the Thunderbolt adapter. I also have three external Firewire 800 drives that I always plug into the Firewire port. But, recently I bought a Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt adapter that will take any eSata drive. I removed my external drives from their Firewire enclosures so that I could plug them into the GoFlex adapter to get the Thunderbolt speed, or at least as fast as the eSata would allow, 6 Mbs.

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In your /Home/ folder: Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites folders.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder) /Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
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/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder) /Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder) /Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder) /Home /Library/Calendars (copy the whole folder) /Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder) /Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
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/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist /Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft.
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http://www.retrevo.com/r/23482dj787/9/LocatingInputs+and+Outputs#q=SonyKDL-40V5100
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