[P1] My Xmas stupid question

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 12/8/03 21:51, "John Paul Moore" <johnpaulmoore at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> My daughter has filled up her ibook with mp3s, has asked for a digital
> camera for Xmas, and clearly needs more storage. I thought it would be
> simple enough to find an external usb hard drive for her clamshell, but
> all the ones available are usb 2 and the kid as OfficeMax says a usb 2
> device will not work with her ibook's usb 1 port (and Mac OS 9.2). Is
> this true? And if it is, has anyone got suggestions for external hard
> drive capacity for clamshells?  She is burning off some of her songs
> onto cds, but she wants all that music available in her itunes and
> without more storage will have no place to put her new digital photos.

It will work, but it will be very slow. Get a FireWire drive - it will work
and will be much, much faster. :-) (The clamshell does have FW, right?)

Alternatively, get a new HD and have it installed internally.


Kirk

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