I've been following a fascinating thread over at Macintouch this past week on Fried Firewire Ports. -- -- The leading theory is that cheapo cables, with maybe some assistance from static electricity, ...
I would bet that most of us are already familiar with the FireWire port. These ports are common on many devices today with both PC and Mac users getting the ports and add in cards available for rigs ...
The lack of a FireWire port on the new MacBooks left some disgruntled customers clamoring for an explanation to no avail. Making up for Apple’s lack of a response, electrical engineer Rainer ...
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1394 working group behind the development of FireWire in both its 400Mbps and 800Mbps configurations has formally approved the ...
We’ve received scattered reports of problems with iMac G5 FireWire ports — specifically situations where one or more FireWire devices seemingly does not draw enough power from the host machine, or one ...
Apple's omission of a FireWire port on the new Aluminum (Late 2008) MacBooks is stirring discontent among MacFIxIt readers and on Apple's discussion boards. Apple’s omission of a FireWire port on the ...
A large number of customers and technicians were peeved when Apple nixed the FireWire port in the first unibody MacBook. Perhaps learning a lesson, Apple revived FireWire in the second-generation ...
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You're still using FireWire, you just don't know it
When I was growing up in the '90s I always read about this mythical connection called FireWire. It was a connection mainly found on Macs, and I had never even seen a Mac in person until I was an adult ...
The 6-pin FireWire 400 port made its way into every Apple laptop released between January 2003 and October 2008, with the exception of the MacBook Air. With a greater sustained throughput than USB 2.0 ...
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FireWire ran external hard drives at full speed when USB physically couldn't, but it still lost
If you used a Mac in the late 1990s or early 2000s, chances are you plugged something into your computer with a FireWire cable at some point. The port looked nothing like the USB connectors most ...
Apple recently introduced its newest MacBook computer that sports many of Apple’s latest designs. These include its unibody enclosure, in which the computer is fashioned from a solid piece of aluminum ...
The good news: most of Apple’s professional-level computers — the Power Mac G5 and the aluminum PowerBook G4 product lines — feature built-in FireWire 800 ports. The bad news: most people I know don’t ...
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