iPod 4th Gen. requires USB2.0?

[juicelooser]

My friend just got an iPod, and he's saying that it says that to transfer songs you must have USB2.0. Anyone know about this?

[hobey19]

And with FireWire and USB 2.0 support, you can transfer the music from an entire CD to iPod in just 5 seconds or less.

from http://www.apple.com/ipod/

craig

[juicelooser]

Right, but I thought USB2.0 was always backwards compatible with USB1.1?

[hobey19]

i don't know anything about that, i thought you were saying that mac dropped firewire support. i don't see any reason why you would not be able to do it, it would just be really slow

craig

[juicelooser]

Yeah--my friend's saying that in the manual it says that it doesn't work without USB2.0, but that just seemed very strange, so I was checking with you guys to see if anyone else has encountered this.

[hobey19]

well, according to the tech specs, it mentions nothing about usb1.1, but instead says usb2.0 is a requirement. whether or not this excludes 1.1 as an option, i don't know

http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html

craig

[kram 2.0]

Actually, I just tried a 4Gen iPod with an Ancient Win98 Toshiba laptop (presuming it's USB1.1, since USB 2.0 wasn't invented then...) and it worked. It was a little hickupy, but it worked fine. No need to worry there. It's best to have a Firewire or USB2.0 for optimal transfer speeds as USB 1.1 was excrutiatingly slow.

kram

[Hi Ho]

Well most PC's from the last few years have USB 2.0 so it really shouldn't be a problem.