Yes sorry my mistake. the Aibook 800 is open Ok so the missing element in the puzzle then is the cable. What are the chances of blowing up firewire controllers when doing things like this? I've heard so many horror stories from folks in the past with problems with their firewire ports. Since I don't have Gigibyte ethernet on the Tibook it does sound like I could gain by using firewire over ip instead of ethernet.