[Ti] FireWire Ports

[Dave Friesen]

I too have not had a problem... yet. Of course I haven't had any dead pixels or other maladies aside from the loose battery common to most early Titaniums.

Regardless, now that I know the issues with the FW ports I'll try to take precautions.

On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 04:36PM, XXL <xxl at mac.com> wrote:

>> There's a fascinating discussion going on over at Macintouch about bad
>> Firewire ports.
>
>A friend had the FireWire port on his Sony Camcorder blown out for no
>apparent reason. (TiBook 400 MHz)  Sony repaired the Camcorder at no charge
>but returned it with a note saying that the PowerBook port was the culprit
>and that Apple knew about the problem.
>
>He then talked to Apple and Apple sent him an entirely new ( and faster :)))
>PowerBook.
>
>My TiBook 400 never had any issues at all with my Sony Camcorder, but mine
>was a very late-production 400, purchased just before the 667 model was
>announced.