Hey guys,

I found this review of the iPod which directly compared Firewire speeds between the Mac and PC. From the article:

"The transfer speeds via FireWire on the PC, while very fast compared to Universal Serial Bus 1.1 players, are still noticeably slower than Apple's implementation of FireWire on the Mac.

In one test, I transferred nearly 1,600 songs to a Mac iPod in 14 minutes. The PC iPod received the same songs in 32 minutes. "