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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have a case that has a firewire port on the front and it has the wires on the inside to plug it into some pins.. My motherboard doesn't have a firewire header on it, so are there any PCI firewire ...

Sometimes also called IEEE-1394, the FireWire standard allows for high-speed connections to external drives. FireWire 400 is roughly comparable to USB 2.0, and drives and ports using FireWire 800 are ...

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 ...

OS X Lion is being hailed by many as the most secure operating system yet, not just from Apple, but in total. In particular, its FileVault encryption rewrite is being widely hailed as one of the most ...

When it comes to major connectors, FireWire is pretty high up there on the list. It's obviously not nearly as universal as the Universal Serial Bus (USB), but it's still a well-know, oft utilized port ...