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36 ipod & itunes: the missing manual
With its ability to move 400 megabits of data per second, FireWire was quickly
adopted by a product that needs to get an enormous amount of information from
Point A to Point B: the digital camcorder. Other hardware with a need for speed, like
external CD burners and hard drives, followed the path to FireWire connectivity.
FireWire’s speed makes possible one of the iPod’s best tricks: slurping in an entire
CD’s worth of music from your computer in ten seconds. It’s also how the iPod gets
its battery charge. Thats great if you have a Macintosh, because every Macintosh
made since about 1998 has a FireWire connector built right in (see Figure 2-1).
If you’re a Windows PC fan, however, FireWire isnt such a sure thing. If you bought
an iPod and then found out to your horror that your computer doesn’t have a FireWire
port, you have two alternatives.
First, you can add a FireWire card to your computer, as described later in this chapter.
Second, if you have a 2003 (or later) iPod model, you can connect your iPod via a
USB cable—a far more common PC connector. See page 40 for details.
Connecting Your iPod by FireWire
If you have a Mac, connecting the iPod is simple: Just plug in the FireWire cable.
If you have a PC, things are slightly more complicated, because there are so many
different kinds of connectors your PC might have. For example:
FireWire connector, 6-pin. If the white FireWire cable that came with your full-
size iPod fits a socket on your PC’s FireWire card, great! Connect the far end to
the iPod, and you’re ready to rock. (As a bonus, your iPod may even get its power
charge from the same cable, depending on which brand of FireWire card you
have.)
FireWire
Figure 2-1:
Left: The FireWire icon on cables
and ports signals that the computer
is equipped with the high-speed
standard.
Right: The connectors are wider and
less rectangular than those of a USB
cable.
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