03-28-2008, 02:42 AM
[quote ka jowct]Why not just get an adapter cable? We have a "two-headed" cable here that has both FW and USB connectors, connected to a previous-gen 30GB iPod.
My computer isn't on all the time, so I usually plug the iPod in to my powered USB hub for charging. To add or remove stuff, I hook it up to my USB 2 card, but I assume that I could also use the FW end of the two-headed cable to attach it to the computer.
I don't think that cable would help with the current generation iPods and a G3 iBook. Those iPods don't support FW for syncing, and require USB 2.0 for syncing, and the iBook only has USB 1.x and no expansion capability, so there doesn't appear to be any way to sync the new iPods with a G3 iBook unless I'm misunderstanding something.
But it looks like the previous generation will at least sync over USB 1.x.
My computer isn't on all the time, so I usually plug the iPod in to my powered USB hub for charging. To add or remove stuff, I hook it up to my USB 2 card, but I assume that I could also use the FW end of the two-headed cable to attach it to the computer.
I don't think that cable would help with the current generation iPods and a G3 iBook. Those iPods don't support FW for syncing, and require USB 2.0 for syncing, and the iBook only has USB 1.x and no expansion capability, so there doesn't appear to be any way to sync the new iPods with a G3 iBook unless I'm misunderstanding something.
But it looks like the previous generation will at least sync over USB 1.x.