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Recent Macs Have Built-in USB 2.0

Posted by pudge on from the taking-your-word-for-it dept.

RalphBNumbers writes "According to a forum thread at CreateMac, a Korean Mac community, the newer MDD 1.25 and 1.42 GHz dual G4s actually use a NEC PD720101 USB 2.0 controller for their built-in USB. Apple's drivers only support USB 1.x, but you can apparently enable USB 2.0 functionality by using the drivers for a USB 2.0 card from Orange Micro that uses the same NEC controller. YMMV." Is there a translation of any of this, somewhere?

3 of 86 comments (clear)

  1. Re:USB 2 Treat Firewire 800 by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since FireWire 800 is twice as fast as USB 2.0, it's hard to see a threat there.

  2. Re:Who cares? by thedbp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those prices aren't exactly stellar. That's without any of the fancy user-apps that Apple includes that make life a whole lot easier. That's also without the more durable and attractive construction. Nor does it include a Unix-based operating system that can also run x86 operating systems. Nor does it include FireWire. And the Wi-Fi option would take up the PC Card slot as opposed to being an internal upgrade.

    So if you add up all the stuff you'd have to add to the Dell to make it comparable to the Mac, the Mac winds up being a better value, especially over time as Apple's OS updates generally make things FASTER and MORE STABLE as opposed to SLOWER and REPLETE WITH BUGS.

  3. Re:About time... by danielsmc · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sure, you can't add another drive, but you can replace the one that comes installed. Swap that one for your 200GB, and put the small one in your USB case. It will work if the 200GB drive is bootable. I replaced my iMac's 6GB drive with a 120GB one, and it worked fine.