Just for information, I picked up my new iPhone yesterday at the Tampa Apple store (4 gig....the 8 gig were out of stock and I just couldn't wait after I actually saw it....BTW...my wife has a new phone as soon as I can find an 8 gig somewhere).
I had several hours to kill waiting for a plane arrival at Tampa so I decided to try to activate it right at the store. I used my old, loved and trusty 667 MHz Ti G4 laptop in the store. That computer only has USB 1.1 and I didn't know if it would work (and neither did the genius bar staff) as the minimum specs state USB 2.0. I also had already upgraded to 10.4.10 and iTunes 7.3 in anticipation of getting my iPhone.
Activation went well and I was functional after about 8 minutes through the process. I did have to rebuild my permissions because initially when I plugged in the cradle and phone iTunes crashed and I just got the spinning beach ball of death for 10 minutes.
Data transfer went like this:
Slow but not as slow as one would think. I didn't know how long it would take so I only transferred 36 songs (125 mb) and it took less than 5 minutes. I then loaded all of my contacts, over 600 in about 3 minutes. It went so well I tried a 30 minute movie (ripped in Handbrake) and about 36 iPhoto photos and they also went faster than expected at about 6 minutes each. You have to make a separate play list and move songs to that to sync with the iPhone.
Conclusion - still a very useable product on a very old system using USB 1.1 ......I don't think I will try Pirates of the Caribbean unless I do it overnight.....LOL.
I wish they had built in a firewire driver or whatever they needed to allow firewire 400 so I can sync it faster but I can live with what I have until I get a new MacBook Pro when Leopard comes out.
So there it is. Just thought someone out there just might be in the same boat as me.....
I had several hours to kill waiting for a plane arrival at Tampa so I decided to try to activate it right at the store. I used my old, loved and trusty 667 MHz Ti G4 laptop in the store. That computer only has USB 1.1 and I didn't know if it would work (and neither did the genius bar staff) as the minimum specs state USB 2.0. I also had already upgraded to 10.4.10 and iTunes 7.3 in anticipation of getting my iPhone.
Activation went well and I was functional after about 8 minutes through the process. I did have to rebuild my permissions because initially when I plugged in the cradle and phone iTunes crashed and I just got the spinning beach ball of death for 10 minutes.
Data transfer went like this:
Slow but not as slow as one would think. I didn't know how long it would take so I only transferred 36 songs (125 mb) and it took less than 5 minutes. I then loaded all of my contacts, over 600 in about 3 minutes. It went so well I tried a 30 minute movie (ripped in Handbrake) and about 36 iPhoto photos and they also went faster than expected at about 6 minutes each. You have to make a separate play list and move songs to that to sync with the iPhone.
Conclusion - still a very useable product on a very old system using USB 1.1 ......I don't think I will try Pirates of the Caribbean unless I do it overnight.....LOL.
I wish they had built in a firewire driver or whatever they needed to allow firewire 400 so I can sync it faster but I can live with what I have until I get a new MacBook Pro when Leopard comes out.
So there it is. Just thought someone out there just might be in the same boat as me.....
