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 ...

Why FireWire's 'loss' to USB was actually a brilliant evolution ...

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 ...

The 1394 Trade Association is touting the success of FireWire ports , saying that the technology has reached the 2 billion ports mark. But that puts it far behind its competitor, USB. Don Reisinger ...

FireWire was an amazing technology, but it lost out to USB for very simple reasons.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I had the FireWire ports on the MDD 1GHzDP at work stop recognizing when devices were plugged in, although the ports would still supply power. A trip to the motherboard re-set switch made everything ...