FireWire leaves MacOS 26
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MacOS 26 Tahoe DEV. Beta 1 is no longer compatible with the IPOD 1st generation from the fact that Firewire support is outdated. pic.twitter.com/m3bmccCCLZ2
&MDash; Michi (@nekomichiubc) on June 11, 2025 officially known as IEEE 1394, FireWire at that time offered a speed of 400 megabits per second.
Steve Jobs, as you know, turned off the FireWire disc after launch and connected it back. The file transfer continued & mdash; But this was usually not reproduced for normal people, such as you and I.
at that time it was more than 30 times faster than USB. This quickly became a connection to edit digital video, external discs and professional audio-vision.
Firewire presented the Apple vision for a high -speed, multimedia future. He supported one -rated compounds, low delay transfers and chamomile chain long before he became standard.
When the original iPod debuted in 2001, Firewire was his rescue circle. The first generation ipod synchronized over Firewire accused of Firewire, and needed the functioning of the MAC equipped with Firewire.
and these were one of the cheapest trips that you could buy at that time.
without it, the iPod may never have done it from the ground. Firewire in the form of Apple in the early 2000s, from synchronization of ITUNES libraries to imports DV in IMOVIE.
In 2003, Apple introduced Firewire 800, which doubled the transfer speed of up to 800 megabits per second and used a new, smaller connector. But Apple has never adopted the later versions of the IEEE 1394 standard, including optical modes and higher speeds exceeding 800.
long farewell
The decrease in FireWire was slow, but stable. USB 2.0 covered the speed and you have much less licensed headaches. Apple began to sprinkle it in the late 2000s, and the last Mac with the local port Firewire, mid-2011 IMAC, sent more than ten years ago.
The company saved FireWire in vital support through adapters, including Thunderbolt-to-Firewire, which remained available until at least 2022. But MacOS stopped the active improvement of FireWire drivers long before that.
By 2024, most modern MAC users went further.
for almost everyone, this is not an evening. Firewire devices are already a niche, and Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4 cover almost all modern work processes.
Doc-do-do OWC Thunderbolt 3 with the FireWire 800
legacy
I in the mid-30s and never used Firewire. Perhaps there was an IEEE 1394 port (Firewire was the name Apple, in our family PC Dell in 2004, but I doubt it.
Mike, my co-author, forced me to write a large part of this part. He said that, I think, I think.
He says that he loves Firewire, but now he also loves Thunderbolt. By the time I started using laptops, even on my computer classes in college, about 2011
, but, despite the disappearance of relevance by the time I have reached the age of majority, Firewire still helped to democratize digital creativity. Editing at home and eating the early iPod. IMOVIE with the I.Link cable from the Sony video camera, or synchronized 1000 songs in a pocket, perhaps did not survive the transition to the Apple Silicon, but left the pure transmission speed and proud heritage. We turned to Apple about this.
