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Originally posted by CatOne:
No, you don't need the dock. And you can use an old firewire cable, you can use a "PocketDock" (search for it on the Apple Store) wi…
Wait a minute. I have a 3G iPod and I bought the USB2/FW combo cable from apple because I wanted to see if I could use the iPod's HD at work (PC).
This cable allows USB2 transf…
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Originally posted by Randman:
Are the docks still Firewire?
I have never purchased a dock separately, but perhaps they don't include the cable? The back of…
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Originally posted by porieux:
See my thread also.
Yeah, like I really want to read more bitching from people who are gonna show Apple by not buying an iPod…
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Originally posted by crooner:
I was all set to place an order for a new 6GB mini. Now I have to rethink things.
Oh well, only 3,999,999 iPods sold this qua…
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Originally posted by Eriamjh:
Wait a minute. I have a 3G iPod and I bought the USB2/FW combo cable from apple because I wanted to see if I could use the iPod's H…
Comp Geeks has all sorts of generic-brand iPod cables for cheap:
http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?ca...PodAccessories
Those retractable ones look cool.
I don't have any numbers right here, but I recall that Firewire is 400Mb/s stream, and USB2 is 480 Mb/s burst, giving Firewire the edge for file transferring. I also recall that ev…
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Originally posted by TailsToo:
Simple! As I said in the last post, most iPod buyers are PC users who probably do not have FireWire. It's less expensive for Appl…
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Originally posted by Mithras:
Well yes, but this means that Apple is just another PC peripheral company screwing Mac users. It's rather ironic.
Apple is not …
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Originally posted by memento:
I've been using it for a while. Not bad.
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No pre-built binary is available at this moment as it is too early …
wow. It's been so long I don't remember where I got it, but obviously not from the officila page! I have compiled dcgui (now valknut) but I did not compile this. I guess you could …