Apple iMac G5 Manuale Utente

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Chapter 3
    Using Your Computer
 
FireWire
Your computer has two FireWire 400 ports (
). FireWire lets you easily connect and 
disconnect external high-speed devices—such as an iPod, an iSight camera, digital 
video cameras, printers, scanners, and hard disks. You can connect and disconnect 
FireWire devices without restarting your computer. 
These are some of the things you can do with FireWire:
Connect an iPod and transfer thousands of songs from iTunes or synchronize contact 
and calendar information using iSync.
Connect an Apple iSight camera and use the included iChat AV application to 
videoconference with friends and family over a high-speed Internet connection.
Connect a digital video camera and capture, transfer, and edit high-quality video 
directly on your computer using video-editing software such as iMovie (included 
with your computer), Final Cut Express, or Final Cut Pro.
Connect an external FireWire hard disk drive and use it to back up data or transfer 
files. A FireWire hard disk icon appears on your desktop after you connect the drive 
to your iMac G5. 
Start up from an external FireWire hard disk. Connect an external FireWire disk (with 
a valid operating system installed on it), open the Startup Disk pane of System 
Preferences, and click the FireWire disk. Restart your computer.
FireWire ports