FireWire, officially known as IEEE 1394, was Apple’s answer to the limitations of SCSI ("Scuzzy". Yes really.) and the ...
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 are going to start making a series of videos to distribute to sales reps. We bought a digital video camera (Sony TRV140 - soon to be TRV340 so we can use remote microphones) that has FireWire out ...