34 Chapter 3 Using Your Computer
FireWire
Your computer has one FireWire 400 port ( ). With FireWire, you can easily connect
and disconnect external high-speed devices—such as DV cameras, printers, scanners,
and hard disks—without restarting your computer.
These are some of the things you can do with FireWire:
• Connect a digital videocamera and capture, transfer, and edit high-quality
video directly on your computer using video-editing software such as iMovie or
Final Cut Pro.
• Connect an external FireWire hard disk drive and use it to back up data or
transfer files.
• Start up from an external FireWire hard disk. Connect an external FireWire hard disk
(with a valid operating system installed on it), open the Startup Disk pane of System
Preferences, and click the FireWire hard disk. Restart your computer.
• Transfer files between your PowerBook and another FireWire-equipped computer
using FireWire Target Disk Mode.
Using FireWire Devices
To use a FireWire device with your computer, connect the device to the computer and
install any software that came with the device. Your computer automatically detects
newly connected devices.
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