I am using a dual-processor Mac production computer with about 1.7gb of RAM, OSX Tiger, and all the “bells and whistles.” Everything is up to date and I have never had problems with the pc.

Everything seems to go fast except my iPod, which uses the standard USB connector included with the device out of the box.

It often takes well over an hour and a half to transfer (”sync”) a gig of media, and this seems a bit excessive to me considering I do the same thing with my USB external hard drive in a matter of minutes. I tried purchasing a third-party firewire iPod connector only to find out the iPod 30gb video model is not compatible with this type of connection.

If you haved this problem this is how you can resolve it:
Using a usb 1.0 port. a usb 2.0 port would be much faster, check it out on your computer.