[stotan]

I have the new 12" powerbook, and also have an external firewire/usb2 drive.

When I plug in the drive using firewire, everything works great. But when i plug in using usb2, it transfers really really slow! (like normal usb). I went to about this mac, and clicked more info, and it gives the system profile... Under USB, it says my HD is connected via high speed USB (up to 500mb/s) or something to that effect. But I'm pretty positive when I transfer files, its not transferring at the speed it should (since my firewire transfers 100meg files in about 10 seconds and with usb it takes a few minutes)

Anyone know whats wrong?

[Sarc]

try the HDD on a USB2 enabled PC ...
if the file trasnfers are fast ... it's the Mac's fault ... if it's slow as well ... it's the HDD