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

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 ...

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 ...

A colleague has just bought a shiny new Canon MV450i camcorder. Unfortunately, his laptop doesn't have a FireWire port. I figure he should buy a PCMCIA adapter to give him FireWire ports, but is it ...

We continue to cover issues with FireWire interference on Intel-based Macs. In many cases, it appears that there are problems using two high-powered, or high data-transfer-rate FireWire devices ...

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 ...

New FireWire digital audio interface from Texas Instruments called the iceLynx that lets you hook up a PC with a Firewire port to stereo equipment that has a co-axial S/P-DIF connection: The Firewire ...

LaCie’s descriptively-named FireWire Speakers are unique among speakers we’ve tested: rather than connecting to your computer using a standard audio cable, or even a USB cable, these compact (5.3″ ...