Customer Reviews

Belkin F5U512-APL FireWire Notebook Adapter for PowerBook G3 Series

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This works great, it has three firewire ports so you don't have to constantly unplug your devices. You can transfer data from one computer to another at 400Mbs. Also works great with my digital video camera.

I bought this product for my father's IBM T43 notebook and he is pretty satisfied with my present. Before the purchase I've read some reviews on IEEE cards and decided that Belkin is one of the most reliable cards for "Sony-IBM video transfer" collaboration.

I've been using this card regularly since 2003 in different PC laptops. I got it as a gift with my 1st iPod and have used it for countless hard drives, including for audio recording purposes. Audio & video people take note this has the sought-after TI chipset. All in all it's been rock solid. My only concern now is whether it works under Windows 7.

I bought this adapter for my Dell Latitude D600, and it works perfectly! I had a few problems installing it initially, but that was my fault. The drivers for my CardBus slot were not installed. Once I got the drivers installed, I restarted the PC and inserted the adapter. Now I have FireWire on my older laptop. The package says the adapter is compatible with systems as old as Windows 98 SE. It installed just fine on my Windows XP system.

I bought this to use with an Apple IPod. It is a great card and works well for the most part, but it does NOT work with my IPod. Even though it is recommended by Apple (...), it can't supply (enough?) power and the IPod's battery drains in seconds.