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Adding a USB 2.0 PCI card - questions & recommendations
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I'm on a MDD Dual G4, so I'm still on USB 1.1. My gf is getting a Mini iPod and I have a Shuffle so I'd like to add a USB 2.0 card for speed and power. I don't mind taking up a card slot so I have a couple of questions:
1) Are PCI cards powered?
2) Will I be able charge my iPods if they're hooked up?
3) If my keyboard is plugged into the (built-in) 1.0 port, will it slow down the whole the whole chain? Or does that matter only if a 1.0 device is plugged into the 2.0 port?
3) recommendations?
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1) yes
2) yes
3) no, you can plug usb 1 devices anywhere with no problem
4) search newegg and check xlr8yourmac for compatibility.
well those are the short answers. I have a MDD also (in sig) and I got a 5 port usb 2 card from newegg.com for $13 or something. Mine didn't say if it supported OS X, but xlr8yourmac said yes so I got it and it works perfectly. I use it to charge my ipod mini and I use the other 3 external ports for usb 1 devices and sometimes my external HD.
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^^Thanks, that's all I needed.
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The only thing that I am reasonably sure of is that anybody who's got an ideology has stopped thinking. - Arthur Miller
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I bought a belkin one a while back that had a USB port on the card, such that when it was installed it stayed on the inside. Great place to put one of those bluetooth dongles.
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Originally posted by Timo:
I bought a belkin one a while back that had a USB port on the card, such that when it was installed it stayed on the inside. Great place to put one of those bluetooth dongles.
Yep, mine has 4 external and one internal port. The pictures at newegg aren't always accurate, but the description will tell you if it has an internal port.
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Yup, all the "5 port" USB cards are like that. You can always only actually use 4 of them -- if you use the internal one, you have to not use one of the external ones.
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Originally posted by tooki:
Yup, all the "5 port" USB cards are like that. You can always only actually use 4 of them -- if you use the internal one, you have to not use one of the external ones.
tooki
Hmm, I will have to test this out. So far every product desciption has clearly said 5 downstream ports, not one said anything about only using 4. Do you have a link for this? I have never seen you wrong here before but this time I kind of hope you are  .
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