Apple PowerBook G4 (12-inch, 1.5 GHz) - Manual (Page 36)

36 Chapter 3 Using Your Computer
FireWire
Your computer has one FireWire 400 port (H). 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 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 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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