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Connecting with firewire – Apple Mac mini computer User Manual

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Chapter 3

Using Your Mac mini

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Connecting with FireWire

Your computer has a FireWire 400 (H) port, which lets you easily connect and

disconnect external high-speed devices—such as an iSight camera, digital video

camera, printer, scanner, or hard disk—without restarting your computer.

These are some of the things you can do with FireWire:
 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 a digital video camera to capture, transfer, or edit high-quality video directly

on your computer using video-editing software such as iMovie or Final Cut Express.

 Connect an external FireWire hard disk and use it to back up data or transfer files.

 Connect an external FireWire disk (with Mac OS X installed on it) and start up from it.

Open the Startup Disk preferences, and click the FireWire disk. Restart your computer.

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FireWire 400 port

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