Saturday, February 23, 2008

Connecting an iPod to a Macintosh Computer

All Macintoshes produced in the past several ears have at least one six-pin FireWire port. You an use the FireWire cable included with your Pod to connect it to your Mac. Connect the Dock nnector end of the cable to Dock connector port on the iPod. Then plug the FireWire end of the cable into a FireWire port on your Mac.

Many Macs also support USB 2, but because the iPod will charge when you use a six-pin FireWire cable to connect it to your Mac, you should use FireWire instead of USB 2. However, if you don’t have an available FireWire port, you can use the USB 2 cable included with an iPod mini or the iPod Dock Connector to FireWire and USB 2.0 cable to connect an iPod to your Mac.

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