[biosphere]

Hi,

I'm pretty certain that this will work fine, but I just wanted to check.

My friend has an iBook, and no internet connection. I have an iBook at home with modem connection. At work I have a PC and 100 mb connection.

My question is: if I put a FireWire/USB 2.0 card in my work PC, will I be able to connect to my and my friends iBook? It would be nice to download updates/freeware/shareware to my work PC and transfer it to the Mac's.

The way I understand it, a USB/FireWire card and a matching cable is all it takes. Am I right?

Thanks,

biosphere

[Saddam H.]

I am not so sure it will work without special software on the PC to see the Mac (which you'd need to put into firewire target disk mode). And I'm almost certain that it can't be done with USB: data transfer PC to PC, yes, but PC-to-Mac, no.

Burning the data to CD-R is the best option, or get one of those jumpdrives.

[biosphere]

Thank you!

Yes, I checked it out some more, and it seems to be far from "easy". A FireWire disk might be the best solution, I'll look into that.

If I get one of those portable disks, would the files show up in both Windows and OSX? Might be a stooopid question, but I honestly don't know...

[The Ayatollah]

A FW disk is not your best option. They're either large and require external power OR small, bus-powered, BUT expensive.

Pick up a jump drive. They won't give you the fastest transfers (unless it's USB 2, but your ibooks can't take advantage of that), but they ARE cross-platform. I use mine all the time.