Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
It's the end of an era, as with the release of the latest Apple Macintosh operating system version, MacOS '26 Tahoe, Apple has dropped support for IEEE-1394 FireWire from their modern Macs, after first coming out with that technology 30 years ago. It helped to make digital video and audio editing, external hard drives, and even the original iPods very popular, and was standard on Macs for much of the 2000s, but with Apple superseding it with the even faster Thunderbolt standards, and modern video and audio devices and external storage drives also abandoning FireWire in favor of the more faster modern Thunderbolt and USB protocols, it was only a matter of time before FireWire's day would come. Fortunately, Zak Wolf is prepared, having a nifty collection of older Macs on hand he can still use his older FireWire devices with for some fun throwback purposes.
It's the end of an era, as with the release of the latest Apple Macintosh operating system version, MacOS '26 Tahoe, Apple has dropped support for IEEE-1394 FireWire from their modern Macs, after first coming out with that technology 30 years ago. It helped to make digital video and audio editing, external hard drives, and even the original iPods very popular, and was standard on Macs for much of the 2000s, but with Apple superseding it with the even faster Thunderbolt standards, and modern video and audio devices and external storage drives also abandoning FireWire in favor of the more faster modern Thunderbolt and USB protocols, it was only a matter of time before FireWire's day would come. Fortunately, Zak Wolf is prepared, having a nifty collection of older Macs on hand he can still use his older FireWire devices with for some fun throwback purposes.
