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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tech Computing Addressing Apple Target Disk Mode security concerns 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Instead of using Target Disk Mode, there is another way to quickly transfer files between two MacBook Pro machines using Thunderbolt 3. Thunderbolt networking provides a peer-to-peer connection at 10 ...

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 ...

I have a mid 2011 27" iMac at my office. It's an i5 with 8GB of RAM and has a spinning disk in it, so it's painful to use compared to my personal 2013 Retina MacBook Pro, even though it also is an i5 ...