I live in Hong Kong, so I think that this is newsworthy. It doesn't even require power if you use a geniune firewire port. I called imation last night in the states to see if it was real, and they said it was and that they would send me an e-mail with the info, but they stilll haven't. I have taken some digital photos of the product sheet and will send them later in the day. Good good news for powerbook users.
Computers eqipped with other brands of hard drives did have such problems.
The drive lasted for about a week and quit. I'm a new fan of the Western Digital FireWire drive after having nothing but problems with the Maxtor external FW drive. I wasn't impressed with this aspect and it seemed like the drive never stopped spinning. My 40gig fw Maxtor died unexpectedly with massive data corruption. I bought a Buslink external fw drive.