How To: Using FireWire or USB cables with a Mac

Posted: September 12th, 2008 | Author: seodude | Filed under: firewire, gadget, ipod | Tags: , , , |

If you have a Mac, the choice is easy: FireWire has been a part of every Mac since at least 2000. (To find out about FireWire, see the sidebar “FireWire or USB: That is the question” in this chapter.) However, differences exist between iPod generations.
Current (third-generation and fourth-generation) models, including iPod mini and color-display models, offer a special cable with a flat dock connector to connect the dock — or the iPod itself — to the Mac’s FireWire or USB port. The dock includes a cable with a flat dock connector on one end and a FireWire or USB connector on the other (some cables have both FireWire and USB). You can connect the FireWire or USB end of the cable to the computer (to synchronize with iTunes and play iPod music in iTunes) or to the power adapter. The connection on the bottom of the iPod is the same as the connection on back of the dock. Plug the flat connector of the cable into the iPod or dock, and then plug the six-pin FireWire connector on the other end to the FireWire port on your Mac (marked by the Y symbol that resembles a radiation symbol), or plug the USB connector to the USB port on your Mac.

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