Which iBook do you have? Not all of them have USB 2.0 ports. You can find out by opening System Profiler, click on USB in the Hardware section, and then look to see if you have anything with a USB High Speed Bus attached. It should show 480 Mbits/sec.
Even that doesn't necessarily mean you'll have fast throughput ... readers are not all equal. Two of the supposedly-full-USB 2.0 card readers I bought could not move data faster than 2.5Mbytes/second (that's roughly [EMAIL PROTECTED]). The Sandisk Imagemate 12-in-1 moves data from a Sandisk Ultra II CF card at roughly 7.5-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (call it roughly 60-65 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) which means a full 1G card will download in about 135 seconds. My Lexar CF FireWire 400 reader runs about the same speed. Godfrey On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Downloading the raw files at GFM this spring took about 20 minutes > per card, on the mac > usb2. Nico lent me his firewire > card reader and that time went down to about 90 seconds. > > I'm looking for one to. > <g> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
