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36 Chapter 3 Using Your PowerBook
Connecting With FireWire
Your computer has one FireWire 400 and one FireWire 800 port (H). With FireWire, you
can easily connect and disconnect external high-speed devices—such as digital video
(DV) cameras and hard disks—without restarting your computer.
You can connect a standard 6-pin FireWire device directly to the FireWire 400 port (H).
You can use a 9-to-6-pin FireWire cable to connect the device to the FireWire 800 port
(H). You can also connect 9-pin FireWire devices directly to the FireWire 800 port, for
even faster connections. Both ports provide power to connected devices (so the
devices don’t need an additional power plug).
These are some of the things you can do with FireWire:
 Connect a DV camera and capture, transfer, and edit high-quality video directly on
your computer using video-editing software such as iMovie HD or Final Cut Express.
 Connect an Apple iSight camera and use the included iChat AV application to
videoconference with friends and family over a high-speed Internet connection.
 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 Mac OS X v10.4.3 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. See “Connecting Your PowerBook to Another
Computer Using FireWire” on page 37 for more information.
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FireWire 400 port
(6-pin)
FireWire 800 port
(9-pin)