Chapter 3 Using Your Mac mini 43
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:
ÂConnect an Apple iSight camera and use the included iChat AV application to
videoconference with friends and family over a high-speed Internet connection.
ÂConnect 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.
ÂConnect an external FireWire hard disk and use it to back up data or transfer files.
ÂConnect 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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