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 ...

On Friday, you might have read my and executive editor Susie Ochs’s experiences with our out-of-the-box, retail purchased MacBooks. We had a lot of glitches in setup and configuration, many confirmed ...

Target Disk Mode isn’t a new technology, but the fact that you can now transfer files using Thunderbolt 3 is new. Target Disk Mode allows you to quickly share files between two MacBook Pros using ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple's Target Disk Mode is useful for troubleshooting, but it does bypass the file security offered in OS X, which may be a concern for some people. Here are a couple of ways to better secure your ...

Several people over at this Mac OS X Hint are reporting successfully installing Tiger to a Mac sans DVD drive by booting the Mac in Target disk mode (hold down the T button at boot up). Then they plug ...

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 ...

Your iMac can access files located on one of your office MacBook computers, making it possible to quickly share files between devices, or attempt to recover data in ...