I can’t see the value of a wireless iPod. It still needs to be plugged in to recharge, so why not download at the same time?

Unless the iPod becomes more of a PDA. Then wireless might make sense.

Just my 2¢ worth; YMMV.

I can't see the value of the iPod anymore (5G, video iPod, i'm looking in your direction), period. What's the point of trying to fill 30GB or 60GB if you're forced to do it over USB?

I'm glad I bought my 4G iPod when I did.

I so agree with you. I am hopping that they at least add FIreWire 2 to the next generation of iPods.

If not using USB 2 to synch the iPod is the equivalent of siting on your porch and watching the Dodge rust.

Only a problem during the first load when an entire library is being moved onto the device. After that, the syncs are incremental and relatively small. Having both FW and USB iPods in my household I can tell you form personal experience that this is much ado about nothing (unless you don't have USB 2, in which case it may be time to upgrade your machine, but that is a discussion for another thread...which has been done already) Functionally, FW400 and USB 2.0 are comparable as to be imperceptably different.

Wlan should do the trick

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I can't see the value of the iPod anymore (5G, video iPod, i'm looking in your direction), period. What's the point of trying to fill 30GB or 60GB if you're forced to do it over USB?

I'm glad I bought my 4G iPod when I did.

It would help if people knew what they were talking about. If you're talking about using USB 1.1 to sync an iPod, then, yes, it is very slow. However, USB 2 is just as fast as FireWire 400. Now, before someone stamps their feet, turns red in the face, and throws a temper tantrum, DO AN ACTUAL TEST. Yep. Be scientific. Sync exactly the same stuff with FireWire and USB 2. Have you done this? If you haven't, don't make such statements.

Oh, and, yes, I've done just such tests. I have a 20 GB 3G iPod, which syncs with FireWire 400, and a 30 GB 5G iPod, which uses USB 2. I did several tests by, first, syncing both iPods to the same library, then adding files to the iTunes library and re-syncing, using a 1.25 Ghz 22-inch G4 iMac with FireWire 400 and USB 2.0. There were no other applications running at the same time.

I used a George Carlin CD (i hour, 57.7 MB) for one test and two audiobooks (total 13:40:18, 94.2 MB) for another. I launched iTunes, turned on the iPod, then plugged it in at a time mark. Here are my results for the audiobook test, for example:

FireWire 3G USB 2 5G
iPod showed up on desktop 0:08 0:10
Update started 0:15 0:15
Update finished 0:29 0:28

within the accuracy of measurement, these are the same. The results for the Carlin CD were the same, as well.

Does anyone else have similar tests they could share?