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- FreeAgent Desk for Mac - hard drive - 1 TB - FireWire / FireWire 800 / Hi-Speed USB
- FreeAgent Desk for Mac - hard drive - 1 TB - FireWire / FireWire 800 / Hi-Speed USBDO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE! NOT FULLY MAC COMPATIBLE!This drive does not work with sleep mode. After a month of writing to Seagate support, their answer was to connect the drive...
- Tags: FireWire, Hi-Speed USB, FreeAgent, FireWire 800, Apple Macintosh, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- OWC Mercury On-The-Go (500GB)
- Laptop hard-drive capacity hit the 500GB mark just a few months ago. The OWC Mercury On-The-Go is an external version of this new breed of 2.5-inch hard drives. Aside from having the largest storage capacity among compact external drives, the Mercury offers a handful of other features. The drive supports...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Backups, FireWire, OWC, OWC Mercury On-The-Go, FireWire 800, USB
- Product reviews 2008-05-13
- LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive (500GB)
- LaCie's new d2 Quadra drive is a compact, 500GB drive designed for people who need high data transfer speeds over an eSATA connection or FireWire 800. Slower connection options--in the form of USB 2.0 and FireWire 400--are also available, so you can use it with a variety of PCs. The...
- Tags: Backups, hard drive, FireWire, eSata, LaCie, FireWire 800, software
- Product reviews 2007-02-03
- Apple announces Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro
- Apple today announced Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros. All MacBook Pro models now offer double the memory and greater storage capacity than the previous generation, as well as a FireWire 800 port. Every MacBook Pro features the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB of shared L2 cache, which is...
- Tags: FireWire
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- Bigger = cheaper
- I can deal with the fact that the 17-inch MacBook Pro has some features that the 15-inch model doesn't have (FireWire 800, 8x double-layer burner) but I am baffled by Apple's pricing model for the MBP17 nicknamed "riot shield."Let's compare Apples and Apples for a second (pardon the pun.) If...
- Tags: Apple Mac Superdrive, FireWire
- Blog posts 2006-04-26
- RIP PowerBook
- RIP PowerBook5400 RPM?What a TOAD! ;)Wrong Again...You try so hard, and yet you just can't seem to get it right. Plasmas? Puh-LEASE-mas!!iBook....yeah right.Jason, you really need to take step back and look at the big picture. You're become too entrenched to offer any real insight on the platform. Your predictions...
- Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple MacBook, FireWire, MacMac, Apple MacBook Pro, FireWire 800, Apple Inc., Apple PowerBook
- Discussion threads 2006-01-10
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- ASUS debuts USB 3.0 motherboard and add-on card
- USB 3.0 finally!Finally, we'll have a USB standard which can surpass the transfer speed we've had with FireWire 800 for YEARS. It will be nice to be able to get external Compact Flash readers which can finally keep up with the maximum read speed of the best new UDMA CF...
- Tags: PCI, FireWire, motherboard, ASUS, USB 3.0, PCI Express
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- Apple's bumper crop of fall hardware, reviewed
- Apple yesterday released a cornucopia of new consumer hardware and the reviews are starting to roll in. No firm benchmarks have been conducted but several outlets have posted preliminary reviews of Apple's Fall 2009 hardware. Macworld likes the LED-backlit displays in the new...
- Tags: Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Hardware, FireWire, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- ZT Affinity 7334Ma (Phenom 2 X4 945 3GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, Vista Home Premium 64-bit)
- Apparently, ZT Systems didn't get our memo asking for a complete redesign of its Affinity series desktop computers. Earlier this year, we bemoaned the blase styling of the Affinity 7308Ma, and although this new $800 Affinity 7334Ma looks just as generic, it still offers a robust set of components including...
- Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer electronics, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, 64-bit, RAM, Microsoft Windows Vista, ZT Systems, AMD Phenom II X4, AMD Phenom II
- Product reviews 2009-10-07
- Western Digital adds e-Ink display to My Book Elite, Studio portable HDDs
- Western Digital on Tuesday announced the addition of an e-Ink display to its My Book Elite and My Book Studio portable hard drives. That means you'll know the drive label and usage stats with a glance at the drive itself. ...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Western Digital Corp., FireWire, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Astro IIDC 4.05.03 (Mac)
- Astro IIDC works with a wide variety of low and high end, color or monochrome, 8 or 16 bit FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 cameras. It has a simple intuitive interface, can record movies, grab frames, grab averaged frames, grab sums of frames, has extensive Altivec / SSE3 optimization for...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Frame, FireWire, Processors, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-09-17
- What should the next MacBook look like? Cost?
- Wasn't the idea for the 13" MacBook Pro going to replace this?Here Apple seemed to be heading to killing the plastic MacBook. Originally the 13" UniBody MacBook was just "MacBook" then later they added a "Pro" to the name (which made sense, as it was so like the existing MacBook...
- Tags: Notebooks, Tablets, Apple MacBook, tablet, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-26
- Dead-Finger Tech: Apple MacBook Pro (13-inch unibody, 2009)
- When it comes to "dead-finger tech" -- that is, technology that's so integral to your life that you'd have to pry it from your cold, dead fingers -- the choice for me is clear: the 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro. ...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- The Wintel blue light special
- Attention MSmart shoppers. Wintel's results are in the toilet and Apple's surpassed estimates. Despite Microsoft's sassy Laptop Hunter ads, Apple sold more Macs than anyone expected. Want to know why? Win on price, lose on price Behind the engaging little customer stories in the...
- Tags: Wintel, Apple Macintosh, Advertisement, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Price, Sales Strategy, Notebooks, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-07-26
- News to know: Amazon; Yahoo-Microsoft; Wireless carrier exclusivity; YouTube; Oracle; HP-IBRIX
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from Kindles Dana Blankenhorn: Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Wireless, Brammo, GlassHouse Service, Microsoft Windows 7, FireWire, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Toshiba's Satellite M505-S4945
- Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Back-to-School roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores. Sitting at the budget level of our round up (a step above entry-level), the Satellite M505-S4945 is positioned as a...
- Tags: Processors, Notebooks, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite, Intel Core 2 Duo, full-HD, laptop computer
- Product reviews 2009-07-17
- Verbatim SureFire USB/FireWire 800 external HDD targets MacBook Pro
- Verbatim on Wednesday announced its line of SureFire portable "combo" hard disk drives that connect with either USB 2.0 or FireWire 800 interfaces -- perfect for one of those new Apple MacBook Pro laptops. Available in 250GB, 320GB and 500GB capacities, the...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Apple MacBook, USB, Apple MacBook Pro, Verbatim, FireWire, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- Maxtor BlackArmor PS 110 - hard drive - 500 GB - Hi-Speed USB
- Maxtor's new 500GB BlackArmor PS 110 external hard drive ($160) provides trustworthy storage and data backup solutions for the consumer that needs more space. The shape and design of the drive isn't a far departure from the FreeAgent Go, another thin external HDD from Maxtor's parent company Seagate. The PS...
- Tags: Backups, Maxtor Corp., Maxtor BlackArmor PS 110, FireWire, hard drive, Seagate Technology LLC
- Product reviews 2009-07-01
- Seagate introduces FreeAgent external HDDs for Mac; up to 2TB
- Seagate on Wednesday introduced its new lineup of mobile and desktop FreeAgent for Mac storage drives, including the portable Go and Go Pro models, a 2TB Desk model and the Go Dock+, a powered USB-hub and dock for the FreeAgent Go. Intended for...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Apple Macintosh, Seagate Technology LLC, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- MSI GT725-212US
- To game well on a laptop isn't always a cheap endeavor--some might even call it a fool's way to part with his wallet. It can often seem like price is no issue for enthusiasts, but thankfully, some manufacturers are looking out for more affordable ways to get a superior gaming...
- Tags: Games, Notebooks, game, notebook, lid
- Product reviews 2009-06-15
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