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Third-party firewire cable with iPod
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Glasgow
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I have a machine at work with my MP3 library on it. I'd like to leave a FireWire cable permanently attached to that machine and get another to use for charging my iPod when I'm not at work.
The literature suggests that you should only use the Apple FireWire cable with the iPod. Is that for some good reason or just liability BS? Can I buy, say, a Belkin FW cable and use it eith my iPod OK?
Cheers,
Fraser
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PowerBook G4 17"
Power Mac G4/800, 1Gb RAM, 80Gb HDD, Superdrive, GeForce 4MX, Gateway 21" CRT, Apple Pro Speakers, iSub - Running Mac OS X Server 10.2
iBook 500, 192MbRAM - Running Mac OS X 10.2
iPod 5Gb
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Berkshire, UK
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My exprience says the warnings are BS. I have used several different FW cables with my iPod w/o incident. Cables used have been the no name variety bundled with a VST FW HD and a Que FW CD-RW. I have also used my iPob cable with my VST drive w/o porblem.
The belkin cables are nice, but pretty expensive. If you must my a Belkin Cable, don't buy it at Best Buy. For reasons unknown, they charge 20%-50% more for their cables than other local retailers (office depot, wal-mart, target, etc)
Paco
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Paco is bitter about the loss of his .mac webpage. Image will return when his sadness lessens.
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Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Chicago, IL
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I think they just want to keep you away from Sony FireWire cables, because Sony's version of FireWire does NOT provide a power feed (meaning your iPod battery wouldn't get recharged). Other than that, all other third-party FireWire cables should be fine.
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Mike Doyle
Chicago, IL
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Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: sunny southern california
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i was in the airport on tuesday, and a guy next to me had a powerbook connected to an ipod with a non ipod cable. clear with blue connectors.
worked like a charm.
he actually worked for apple too, and i had my pod and ibook, it was a Goshdarn mac nerd fest!
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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I use the 15' cable that came with my MOTU 828 firewire interface... It works great and I can put my ipod anywhere 
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