[P1] My Xmas stupid question

[John Paul Moore]

Thanks very much for the very fast responses. No, her clamshell has no 
firewire and taking the ibook away from her long enough to send it out 
for an internal hd replacement is out of the question, I'm afraid. But 
if usb2 will work, only slower, does that mean it would be too slow to 
access, say, mp3 tunes to be stored on the usb drive and be able to 
play them through the itunes on her clambook? Sorry, I told you this 
was a stupid question, should have mentioned I'm not all that smart 
myself. Thanks again, Daddy Santa
On Monday, December 8, 2003, at 02:58 PM, Kirk McElhearn wrote:

> 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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