HOWTO Firewire and IMAC

Dear Friends,
What use FIREWIRE in IMAC. Please help I am a new to MAC.
Thanks,
Ashrafpa

Also, see http://www.usb-ware.com/firewire-vs-usb.htm Note that FW800 is about twice as fast as FW400, which this page reports results for. IMO, USB is fine for slow input and output devices: mice, keyboards, printers, etc. FW was explicitly designed for high speed data transfer.

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<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8429.html>
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I heavily use iTunes (190 GB), iPhoto (120 GB) and iMovie (30 GB, but want to do more when I get time). Additionally, I store lots of old videos on circa 10 portable hard drives (1 TB each), which I access occasionally.
The family use all this content and we currently have a MacBook Pro and are considering buying a new computer - either a new MacBook Pro or an iMac. We also have iPads, iPhones etc and a Time Capsule.
[…] We want all our music and pictures in single master libraries that we can all access and update.
The "update" portion of this is where your problems will arise. You'd be better to consider your proposed system initially in terms of content "consumption", before getting into the nitty-gritty of editing shared content.
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