Various FireWire and USB devices can cause indefinite stalls in the Mac OS X startup routine when connected prior to or during the the boot process. In many cases the stalls can be obviated by simply ...

Apple Computer has almost single-handedly succeeded in turning USB into an accepted interface standard. Sony, Apple, and others are currently making FireWire into the industry standard for multimedia.

I've been using USB 2.0 to my external Seagate HDD and a buddy said I'm all wet - that Firewire is way faster. <BR><BR>Speed is good. Is firewire worth the cost of a cable to save time for regular ...

Want to add USB 2.0 to your Mac OS X-equipped Power Mac? Need more FireWire ports too? Now you can kill two birds with one stone and not spend a mint in the process. FirewireDirect has announced the ...

Some USB and FireWire devices can cause problems with Mac OS X startup when connected prior to or during the boot process. As mentioned in our tutorial "Startup fails (particularly after a system or ...

Some (all?) DV camcorders transfer the raw DV data over Firewire but recompress the video when tranferring over USB. DV camcorders are really meant to be used with Firewire.

NitroAV on Wedensday introduced two new additions to their SATAStar Series PCI-Express host adapter expansion cards. The cards have been tested to work on Power Mac G5s equipped with PCI-Express slots ...

The Mac Pro is about due for another update, and while Steve Jobs has pretty explicitly ruled out Blu-Ray support in any foreseeable Mac refreshes, the sometimes-reliable French rumor site Hard Mac ...

The D-Link High Speed USB 2.0 and FireWire Combo PCI Adapter accomplishes several things at once. First, it adds both USB 2.0 and FireWire ports to the motherboard. Second, because it's a combo card, ...

A new combination USB 2.0/FireWire hub from D-Link with four USB 2.0 ports and three FireWire ports. It’s not clear from the press release where on the PC the DFB-H7 hub connects to, but we’re ...

The OXUF924DSa and DSb from Oxford Semiconductor provide external storage designers with a bridge between SATA disks and USB2.0, FireWire400, FireWire800 and External SATA ports. These integrated ...

The ubiquitous USB port wasn't the only way. Apple, Sony and Panasonic favored an alternative, IEEE 1394, marketed by the U.S. company as FireWire. It had benefits: faster throughout, daisy-chaining, ...