my sister is geting a new ipod with fire wire hook ups how much do you think it will cost to get a fire wire port on my dell and how much a swich box or conecter to usb will cost

Google is your friend ... First Result: FireWire/USB2.0 windows adapter for the ipod ON the apple website ...

btw: dont get a converter, get the stinkin pci card. Otherwise there is no point of geting the firewire as you'll still have the bottleneck of usb2.

just woundering cause i am trying to get my sister to get an ipod usb insted of ipod firewire
but she is domb and has a mac

Just let her get the firewire and you get the firewire -> USB converter for you. As it's her ipod you shouldn't have to go out and buy a new card, besides, you probably cherrish your free PCI slots as much as I do lol...

yea your right if she does not listen she should spend her money on the converter