Unfortunately these old iBooks don't have any externally-accessible
slots.  Only the one internal slot where the AirPort card slides into
(under the keyboard).

--- Rex. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff @ SLYN Systems [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 4:58 PM
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Cc: Rex Baldazo
Subject: Re: MacGroup: Any cheap way to get a fast USB 2.0 port for an
older iBook?

Rex,
Do you have an open PC Card/PCMCIA slot in the iBook?
The USB 2.0 adapters are very reasonably priced.

Jeff Slyn, Owner
SLYN Systems & Peripherals
(502) 426-5469
serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985!


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:29:04 -0800 "Rex Baldazo" <Rex.Baldazo at cnet.com>
writes:
> I've got an older dual-USB iBook, I think maybe 3 years old.  I'm 
> picking up one of those Sony PSP handheld games that supports the 
> high-speed USB 2.0 but the iBook only has USB 1.1 ports, and of course

> the FireWire 400 port.
> 
> Does anybody know of any cheap gizmo that plugs into the FireWire 400 
> port to emulate a high-speed USB 2.0?  Just wondering if I'm gonna be 
> stuck downloading files to the PSP over my slow USB 1.1 connection.
> 
> I could use my PC at work, which has USB 2.0, but I'd rather do stuff 
> thru the iBook if I could.
> 
> --- Rex.



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