While Apple's new adapter can be attached to a computer by its FireWire connection, it will not provide Thunderbolt over FireWire. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past ...

Keeping tabs on proper FireWire use Making sure that everyone in your organization is properly using FireWire ports is key to avoiding failure. Bryan McGill, a Macintosh administrator, writes: "This ...

For a moment in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the future looked uncertain for the Universal Serial Bus (USB). At the time, it was IEEE 1394 (better known by the Apple trademark FireWire) that ...

FireWire, or its more technical name, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 1394, works similarly to a universal serial bus: It enables plug-and-play devices to connect to a computer with ...

Apple Computer has almost single-handedly succeeded in turning USB into an accepted interface standard. Sony, Apple, and others are currently making FireWire into the industry standard for multimedia.

Device fits into pc-board cutouts and saves up to 55% space compared with standard termination The KMFS-SMT-130 low-profile IEEE 1394 connector offers an above-board height of 2.77 mm�a reduction of ...

Here's basically the problem: I have a firewire audio interface connected to a Snow Leopard mac mini using a 5 meters firewire cable which is the maximum length allowed by the fw specification, and ...

A new interconnect technology called Light Peak is being developed by Apple as a potential replacement for FireWire, USB and traditional monitor cables. Engadget reports that Apple brought the ...

FireWire is a transfer protocol designed to accommodate the large file sizes of digital video. If your work computer only features a USB port and your camera only has FireWire, you can still download ...

Years ago, when Apple shipped its first Macs with 1GB hard drives, I remember asking myself, “Who would ever need that much storage?” It didn’t take me long to figure out who, especially now that the ...

Apple has a storied history of being the first company to introduce an array of new technologies in its computers, or among the very first, at least. It all started with color graphics in 1977’s Apple ...

The rise and fall of FireWire—IEEE 1394, an interface standard boasting high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer—is one of the most tragic tales in the history of computer ...