USB2 and my G4 Mac

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Hello,

I have a G4 iMac
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The model above. It has USB1.1 I was wondering would I be able to add USB2?


Thanks.
 
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MacMini M-1 MacOS Monterey, iMac 2010 27"Quad I7 , MBPLate2011, iPad Pro10.5", iPhoneSE
On the Lampshade iMac, I know of no way to add a USB 2.0 card. I am pretty sure there is no PCI slots. Unless there is some USB 2.0 to Firewire device. Will check around and get back to you.
 
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Welcome to Mac-Forums, Retox.

As far as I know, USB 2 is backwards compatible with USB 1.1 so you wouldn't have any problems, I don't think.

Speed gains? If you are looking for faster, think FireWire.
 
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17 inch 2 GHz C2D imac (5,1) with 3GB DDR2 RAM, X1600 (128MB memory) GPU - OSX 10.6.3
Totally agree with MHC here. USB 1 or 1.1 is terribly slow for transfering large files.
 
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Well i have a 160gig external usb2.0 HD... so I guess I'll just have to live with it

Oh and thanks for the welcome.
 

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