We're beginning to receive some interesting reports about potential problems with FireWire target disk mode on the newly introduced Mid-2007 (Santa Rosa-based) iMacs. Specifically, one user found that ...

Reader Barry Wallack would like to take advantage of the wonder that is FireWire to use another Mac’s hard drive as a local volume. He writes: I am trying to connect two Macs together via a FireWire ...

TV mirroring with new iBooks: Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X differences Several readers replied to our item yesterday on TV mirroring with the new iBooks. Apparently, what happens depends on whether you are ...

I've got a black MacBook (first generation) and have, in the past, been able to put it in target disk mode and boot our 24" aluminum iMac off of it (which lets me use the big screen but run off the ...

Apple computers have a unique boot option called Target Disk Mode which allows access to a system’s hard drives via Firewire cable in older Macs and a Thunderbolt cable in newer models. You access ...

DALLAS -- A friend whose iMac's hard drive had apparently died called recently, wondering how she might access the files on the failed drive. Because she was using a Mac, she had an option that PC ...

In a new WWDC session video today, Apple has elaborated on the system architecture of the forthcoming Apple Silicon Mac transition. Notably, this will mean a few changes to the experience, including a ...