[iTunes] iPod newbie X's 2

[John]

On Oct 15, 2006, at 6:16 PM, cheshirekat wrote:

> I have a Titanium PowerBook G4, 867 MHz, OS X 10.4.7. Since these came
> with USB 1.1 I bought a FW/USB PCMCIA card a few months ago from
> MacMall, to add USB 2.0. functionality. Unfortunately, the card didn't
> work. I am now looking at trying either an Adaptec adapter or an  
> IOGear
> adapter. Both are 2 port and USB only. Does anyone have either of  
> these
> PCMCIA adapters functioning for their PowerBooks and can recommend one
> over the other? Or another brand? I don't know what other options I  
> have
> for synching music to my iPod, (including many protected AAC files I
> purchased from the iTMS) without USB 2.0 which the specs from Apple  
> say
> is required for the new iPods. However, Apple doesn't sell any PCMCIA
> adapters that I can find. Nor have I found any other means of getting
> 2.0 functionality to my PowerBook.

I bought an Apricorn EZ-USB 2.0 card for my PB G4 550MHZ (Ti). Works  
like a charm. It is the kind with the dongle, meaning you can leave  
the card in the PCMCIA slot all the time.

Model #: EZUSB2CB