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Apple MacBook Pro (15-inch) User Manual

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Chapter 3

Using Your MacBook Pro

These are some of the things you can do with FireWire:
 Connect a HDV or 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 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 v10.4.4 installed on it), open the Startup Disk pane of System

Preferences, and click the FireWire hard disk. Restart your computer.

 Transfer files between your MacBook Pro and another FireWire-equipped computer

using FireWire Target Disk Mode. See “Connecting Your MacBook Pro to Another

Computer Using FireWire” on page 60 for more information.

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