If you've been around in the computing space for some time, you'll surely remember at least a few of these legacy PC ...

Tidy up that old box of cables.

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 ...

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 ...

With digital video cameras, MP3 players and external DVD burners all jockeying for a high-speed connection, plugging and replugging various cables into the computer’s few FireWire ports can become a ...

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 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 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 ...

My iMac (new, 3.06 GHz 24") has a FW 800 and a FW 400. I have heard they share the same bus, which, like my MBP, I understand to mean that if there is a FW 400 device attached, it slows FW 800 to 400.

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 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 ...

This week I added USB 2.0 ports and FireWire ports to my computer. Then I hooked my digital camcorder up to a FireWire port and using Nero software transferred my first digital video to my computer.