what pc/ USB do i need to properly interface w/ the 4000?

please let me know....no one at akai seems to know

any PC under Windows XP (or maybe earlier versions but I did not perform any test) will work fine

I use a pentium I 233mhz laptop using windows 98SE w/ aksys for my mpc 4000. I also use my mac g4 using os9 w/ aksys.

yeah i have win 98....

what type of usb capabilities do you have on there?

prolly usb1.1 since usb 2 came in 2002

so if i dont have usb 1.1 im screwed?

No, usb 2.0 is backwards compatible. Practyically this means you can use a 2.0 port on your computer in combination with the 1.1 MPC4000.

ok great thanks....i think i have asked this before but have never gotten a clear response....if i have regular win 98 and i have a usb port...and i transfer a file from windows to my mpc...lets say its a 1 mb file...how long is that going to take?

I also use windows 98 with my MPC, it works fine. The transfer rate of a 1MB file takes a second or two.

wow...thanks....appreciate it

if i upgrade to win xp...is that speed going to increase?

No, because the MPC will not change the rate of transfer.