On Jul 12, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Mat Maessen wrote: >> I have the ibook G4. I don't have my receipt here ay work, but its >> something in the area >> of 1.33 to 1.8 GHz. I bought it last September, and i THOUGHT it >> was to have included 2 usb 2 slots. > > An iBook G4 does have USB2 ports.
It depends on which one. Apple started equipping iBook G4 models with USB 2.0 ports in the latter half of 2004. iBook G4s were available with processors up to 1.33Ghz clock speed, and I *believe* that all of them were equipped with USB 2.0 ports but can't say for sure without looking at a serial number or System Profiler report. > .. It may be that your card reader is simply slow. ... Yes, that's what I suspect. Dave's report of a 2G card transfer in about 20 minutes is too fast for USB 1.1 (that would take about 40 minutes with a [EMAIL PROTECTED] transfer rate, what I've measured as actual throughput with Apple USB 1.1 ports) so it makes a slow reader (1.66 Mbytes@ second) or a slow card the likely suspects. He's using Sandisk Extreme III cards, which are 133x rated, so the last link is the reader itself. I tested six different USB 2.0 card readers and found the "Sandisk ImageMate 12-in-1" to be the fastest so far, with performance up to 5x faster than the slowest (using the same Sandisk CF and SD Ultra II cards as reference). It is on par or faster than the Lexar CF FireWire reader I also own. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
