[G4] Advice on iPod purchase

[James Pacyga]

I have a video iPod 60Gb 5th Gen.  I also don't have a USB 2.0 card  
on my old PowerMac G4/500 that I use as a media box (where all my  
50Gb of music is stored).

Aside from being slow as paint drying in Seattle, it works fine.   
Figure about 400 songs will sync per hour on USB 1.1.  So that is  
pretty crappy, but once you do the initial sync it isn't bad unless  
you are really shifting your music collection a lot.

My initial pain point (to sync 9700 songs) was about 2 days of pain...

Meanwhile my wife gets her iPod Nano to sync up 4Gb much quicker off  
my iBook G4, but really I have time where I can afford for it to be  
"out of pocket" for a while whilst it syncs up.  I will have to get  
the USB 2.0 card at some point since it doesn't work off the  
available USB 1.1 I have on the keyboard (not enough juice) and it  
causes me to have to disconnect my speakers or keyboard to sync...

It is a bummer about the firewire since I have firewire ports a  
plenty (Thanks Apple :P)

jim


On Jan 3, 2006, at 17:30 , Kevin Willis wrote:

> 	I am thinking about getting a Video iPod, but my understanding is  
> that they don't support Fire Wire.  My problem is that I have a  
> Gigabit G4 which I think uses USB 1.1, and all my PCI slots are  
> full.  Does any one make a USB 2.0 to Fire Wire adapter that I can  
> use to sync my Mac and my iPod?  If not, what are my options?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
>
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