Is there a difference between usb and usb 2.0?

[ken at kg293.net (Ken Gosier)]

Many thanks to all for the help. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite
2805-S301. I believe this url should bring up the detailed specs:

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_outFrm.jsp?moid=1073810427&ct=DS&BV_SessionID=@@@@1098237194.1072064561@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciadckelfggegcgfkceghdgngdgll.0

I don't believe it has firewire, but I could be wrong on that.

Question: If I understand correctly, it's OK to buy a usb 2.0 device for a
usb 1.1 machine, it'll just run slowly? (It's OK to run slowly for now. I
can buy the PCMCIA card a bit later.)



Johannes B. Ullrich said:
>
> From my (limited) experience, USB 2.0 drives will work with USB 1.1
> laptops. However, the speed will be very slow. USB 2.0 PCMCIA cards
> usually run $25-50.
>
> What kind of laptop is it? Does it have firewire? Maybe another option
> is to swap the CD drive in the laptop for a used CD-RW drive?
>
> Your laptop is most likely USB 1.1. Most laptops until very recently
> included 1.1 only.
>
>
> On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 13:09, Ken Gosier wrote:
>> There's a very cool-looking external cd-rw on sale over at
>> overstock.com:
>>
>> http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PROFRAME&PROD_ID=570145
>>
>> The only problem is: It says USB 2.0. I have a relatively old laptop
>> (almost 3 years now.) So I'm worried that my usb ports aren't the
>> latest.
>>
>> I've read all over the laptop docs, and they just say "usb" w/o a
>> version number. I also looked over the faq on usb.org, and it also
>> doesn't mention anything about different versions.
>>
>> Are there differnent usb versions? Is this something to worry about?
>> Many thanks for any help--
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