Re: Mac mini or iMac?

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 18:46:21 +0000, Chris Ridd <chrisridd@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

I want a powered keyboard with USB and Firewire ports. Why powered?
Because one port is not powerful enough to run a keyboard, mouse, and
iPod in my wife's iPod.

Matias do one with a powered USB 2.0 hub:
<http://www.matias.ca/usb2keyboard/index.php> but there's no Firewire
and it does use two of the USB ports on the computer.

Thanks for the link.

The "solution" for the lack of Firewire is to get a newer iPod that
doesn't sync using Firewire ;-)

My iPod is an USB iPod - why can't they use either - like other
portable disk drives?

With cheap portable USB/Firewire drives, I'd like to plug in external
drives to the best interface that was convenient. If the USB plug
is on top of my desk, and the Firewire drive is behind my computer,
the drive I take back and forth to work uses its USB interface.

(Of course, since we can't use Time Machine with our Air Port Extreme,
it has to be plugged into the computer all the time - so it probably
uses the Firewire port).
.

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