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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How often do you use the FireWire port on your PC? Maybe it would be better to ask if you even have a FireWire port. There's a decent chance that you have a FireWire port on your computer, especially ...

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 ...

Before USB standardized how we connect devices, computers were a tangle of incompatible ports. Here are the ones that USB ...