i know...i sell mac stuff at work. the PC's use IEEE1394. i just bought a pci card for my pc at home. and USB2.0 cables are already out... Apple just has to put up the drivers for the USB2.0 on the iPod on their website and itll be a free download. until then, the USB 2.0 speed wont work. but yeah, id still rather user Firewire/1394 instead of USB 2.0 h: