iPod mini with USB 1.1

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iPod mini with USB 1.1

I want to buy a blue iPod mini to go with my rev D iMac. Of corse, it has usb 1.1 and I want to use it with my iMac. Is it possible to use the USB 2.0 cable with my iMac and get it working. And yes, I know it will be slow but, I don't really care.

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iPod mini with USB 1.1

This should work, only, as you said, it would be slow.

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Yep!

It should work fine as long as you have OS X on that machine, AFAIK there is no way to get the iPod mini working under OS 9.

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duh

I have OS X on everyone of my Macs. Even on my PM 8600/200! Thank god for Xpostfacto! Blum 3

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It worked for me

My slot load iMac had faulty Firewire so I used USB 1.1 for a while with a first generation iPod Mini. Transfers take about 4 hours per Gigabyte.

Phil

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WOW! :p

Time to grab a cup of tea and a copy of MacAddict. That is sssslllooowww.

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i also used my 2nd gen mini w

i also used my 2nd gen mini with my eMac (usb 1.1) before buying a firewire cable. yes, transfers were very slow, but it worked, and charged too.

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4 hours/GB?

Filling a 256MB flash drive over USB 1.1 takes about 1-2 minutes, and I hardly think 4x 2 minutes = 4 hours...

Even if the iPod takes data slower than a flash drive, it'd have to be a real piece of crap to take that much longer.

Don't be discouraged- it'll be slow enough, but won't take long overall.

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Also, only once, yes?

Even if it does take 4 hrs/GB, I imagine there'd only be one marathon session - plug it in the first time and let it sit overnight. From then on, incremental syncs should be relatively quick. Just remember to update it often, lest a lot of new "to be synced" changes pile up.

Matt

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Seems to me that 1-2 mins for

Seems to me that 1-2 mins for 250MB over USB 1.1 is aweful fast. I've booted my iBook over USB 1.1 on an old 6GB 2.5" drive, that was SLOW. The install to the drive took forever. USB 1.1 runs max at 12Mbps, so it should be barely faster than 802.11b at 11Mbps. I have never had WiFi run that fast, let alone 10Base-T ethernet.

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