PCG-V505BP owner needs advice Re: Apple I-pod

[marilyno]

are their any owners of the above laptop who have purchased an Apple i-pod (20gb with Colour Screen) I am thinking of buying one but need to know did you get it to work with the normal USB 1.1 port on the side of the vaio or did you have to purchase a USB 2 card to go in the PC card slot?

Puzzled aol user

[kee-lo_]

Yes it will work but

- It will be slow
- You can't charge it - you'll need to do that via mains before synching

USB2 card will solve it

[marilyno]

Dear Kee-Lo

I have been informed by Sony that my PC Card slot is only a type I with 16bit the Apple i-pod needs a 32 bit to work if I purchase a PC USB 2 card and insert the i-pod into the slot on the USB 2 card will that mean the i-pod will then get the 32bit it needs to work?

[kee-lo_]

No but I did get around this by buying a firewire hub from eXpansys - which is powered

The one I have has been discontinued, but this one will do the job too