If you are planning on using Target Disk Mode to boot your Mac equipped with Thunderbolt ports you’ll need Apple’s special Thunderbolt cable in order for it to work. This is required even when ...

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 ...

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 ...

FireWire target disk mode has saved my bacon countless times. If you’re not familiar with FireWire target disk mode it transforms a Mac equipped with a FireWire port (either 400 or 800) into an ...

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 ...

If you have multiple MacBooks in your office and you want to be able to access one computer from another computer, use Apple's Target Disk mode. Target Disk mode is only supported over a FireWire ...

I bought a 16" MBP exactly 5 months back. I was happy. It had the new keyboard. No complaints except for the fact that the fan seems to come on all the time when connected to external monitors. But ...

Brett Wickens reports "Since applying the G5 Firmware Update, my G5 will no longer boot from my Diskwarrior CD boot disk (which contains OS X 10.2.3). I get a brief flashing folder icon, then the G5 ...