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iPods USB 1.1 Compatible?

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meanmusic

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HI,
I'm looking to buy an iPod for my PC. The USB ports are not 2.0 but rather 1.1 can the IPod still work on my PC?
 
I realy dont think you can this is from apples Spec Sheet
Stores data via FireWire or USB 2.0(3) hard drive

Sorry no USB 1.1 (to slow)
 
it would work--USB 2.0 is backwards compatible to 1.1--albeit very very slowly. you can just buy a firewire or USB 2.0 pci card for your PC for dirt cheap (like less than $40 name brand, less than $15 if you're ok with generic).
 
Not sure if it's possible but it's definately very unintelligent to try and use it with USB 1.1. 5 gigs of music would take hours to transfer.
 
yeah, with USB 1.1 you're probably doing 1 GB every hour or so at the very best. if you've got a 40 GB iPod, you can plan on taking more almost 2 days days to fill it.
i would say the best option is to buy an FW card, that's probably the most potentially trouble free option.
 
The Apple knowledge base mentions it could work but is not a good idea. No problem. Planning to get a Firewire card.

Thanks
 
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