They are not always compatible. There are minimum hardware and software requirements. It is possible to use adapters and upgrade hardware in order to make them compatible.
The Canon ZR90 works with a Mac. It uses a FireWire connection so you will need a suitable FireWire cable and a FireWire 800/400 adapter if the Mac only has a FireWire 800 socket.
Depending on the particular Mac and the ports available: Ethernet (1000 Mbps) Firewire 800 (786 Mbps) USB 2 (480 Mbps) Firewire 400 (393 Mbps) USB 3 (4.3 Gbps) Intel Thunderbolt (10 Gbps)
All modern Apple Mac computers come standard with USB 2.0, Firewire (IEEE 1394a, and in some models also IEEE 1394b), and digital audio input ports.
The apple mac name of IEEE 1394 is FireWire
The IEEE 1394 Interface or Port is also know by it's Apple Mac name as FireWire.
Install the software before connecting the FireWire 1814 unit. Shut down the Mac. Connect the FireWire 1814 and switch the Mac on. The unit shoudl be recognised. A Control Panel will have been installed in the System Preferences. Set up your requirements in the Control Panel.
The apple mac name of IEEE 1394 interface is FireWire.
It turns your laptop into an external firewire drive. You can connect it to a computer via firewire 400 or 800 and it will appear on that computer's desktop. If you get a new Mac you can use Target Disk Mode to quickly copy your stuff from the old Mac to the new Mac. (See links below)
It depends what you want to connect to the Mac. It could be the FireWire socket, a USB socket, or the DVI port .
Mac (as in Mac computers made by Apple) is short for Macintosh, which was one of their earlier computers... They later on decided to shorten it to Mac...
The IEEE 1394 interface is also know as "Firewire" on an Apple Mac.
There are several computers in the Macintosh range from the Mac Mini to the Mac Pro. What ports you have depends on the type of Mac you have but they will have ports such as: Gigabit Ethernet port Mini DisplayPort Audio in/out SD card slot FireWire 800 port USB 2.0 ports Optical digital audio input and output TOSLINK ports Analog stereo line-level input and output minijacks