Hi I have a friend who has a PC laptop running XP, and he has a bunch of MP3 files that I want to put on my computer, new iBook. Does anyone know how I could do this using a USB cord? He doens't have a firewire connection.
Is there anyway to use a standard USB cable? I'm looking for the most low cost least hassle way to transfer MP3's. My buddy doesn't have a CD burner. So that is the problem.
USB wasn't designed for networking, but for low-bandwidth peripherals like keyboards.
Seriously, just grab a cheap Ethernet cable, and go to town. He's going to have to set up the networking on his end, but your iBook *should* be able to autoconnect to it almost effortlessly. (Set your Location to use DHCP, then follow the directions in MacOS X Help to log onto his SMB sharing of his drive.)
if you have a large website you can upload them to there or use a P2P client like direct connect to get them without networking directly. but the best way would be to just buy a cheap network hub and link the 2 together, not a problem seeing as his is a laptop.
For just two computers, you don't need a hub. Just a cable. I believe that with the new iBook, you don't even need a crossover, just a standard cable. (It auto-senses the type of cable being used and adapts appropriately.)
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it also costs like $60...
networking the computers saves $$ and it is not that difficult... so why not?
OT: is it possible to get computers talking to each-other over a phone wire through their modems?
If the computer doesnt have burning function, u can try borrowing a CD burner from your friends.
USB will not work unless you BUY move to mac which is like $60 <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
Seriously, just grab a cheap Ethernet cable, and go to town. He's going to have to set up the networking on his end, but your iBook *should* be able to autoconnect to it almost effortlessly. (Set your Location to use DHCP, then follow the directions in MacOS X Help to log onto his SMB sharing of his drive.)