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I just bought a new iPod 15GB (my wife co-opted my original 5GB) and I noticed in the instructions that it can use a Firewire800 port with an adaptor? Can the iPod actually transfer at speeds that fast? Can the HD keep up? Or is just there as a convenience in case your FW400 ports are all used up. I have a G5, so I have a FW800 port just sitting around.
It's just a convenience. iPods aren't FW800 devices, and even if they were, it wouldn't make any difference, since the hard drive within the iPod isn't anywhere near as fast as FW400, even.
Any FireWire device can be used on a FW800 port with a port adapter. FW800 is backward compatible. Essentially, FW800 is made up of two FW400 channels running together.
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