Western Digital My Passport SE (Silver)

Formatted for Mac and compatible with Apple® Time Machine™ this drive is plug-and-play ready for Mac computer users.

Maximum capacity. Maximum style. – Store all your favorite videos, music, photos, and important files. Although it’s still sleek and compact, it’s ideal for storing the large files of creative professionals.

Designed for Mac – Formatted for Mac® and compatible with Apple® Time Machine™, this drive is plug-a

nd-play ready for Mac computer users.

Drive lock – Gain peace of mind knowing that your data is protected from unauthorized access or theft with password protection and 256-bit hardware-based encryption.

“Upon arrival, it came in such a small box that I thought it was something else. How can 1 TB be in such a small devise? I’m not sure, but it’s there. And it’s great that it runs off of USB power, it doesn’t require a separate power source like other external hard-drives. Plugged it in to my Mac, started loading it up with pictures, movies and songs and performance was great. This is what plug and play was meant to be.”

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I can’t speak to the issues that some of the other reviewers have had, but I have to say I’ve been very impressed by this drive. You’ve got to plug it in so it’s not really an “on-the-go” kind of drive, but that’s not what I needed. I have a couple of FreeAgent Go drives for that (and the reason I went with Seagate this time is because I’ve been so impressed with the other Seagates). This time, I wanted a big drive that I could use as a Time Machine backup for my MacBook Pro, and as a backup for all of the video files I’ve shot over the years. So far I’ve been very happy with this drive. One thing I noted right away is that it actually has slightly more than 1TB of space! With every other external drive I’ve ever used the actual amount of usable memory has been a bit less than advertised, even after I’ve reformatted them. With this one you get what is advertised. It’s a USB 2.0 data connection, and from what I’ve seen manages to move files more quickly than my older Western Digital 500GB desktop firewire drive.

For comparison, I tried moving a 2.15 GB video file back and forth between my laptop’s hard drive and a few of my external drives. This one was fastest at both downloads and uploads – it would download the 2.15 GB file in one minute, 17 s. as opposed to 1 min., 40 for the portable FreeAgent Go and 1 min., 37 for the Western Digital. Uploading results were similar: it would upload the same 2.15 GB video file in 1 minute, 10 s. while the other drives uploaded in about 1 minute, 20 s. So, it’s pretty fast and does exactly what I need – I’ve got no complaints and am very happy about the price (which turns out to be almost exactly what I paid a year or so ago for my 320GB portable drive and much less than what I paid about 3 years ago for my 500 GB desktop drive). What’s not to like?

One more thing, for Mac users. While this drive is set up out of the factory to plug and play on Windows it can easily be converted to a handy Mac drive. Here’s how:

1. plug it in to your Mac, using the USB 2.0 cable provided with the drive

2. open up your applications folder, search for the utilities folder and then run “disk utility” (or, just search for “disk utility” in finder or spotlight and click on it).

3. you should see an icon for your “1 TB Seagate Desktop Media” drive in the left column of “disk utility” and also a drive partition (as I recall it was called “desktop” but I changed the name) underneath that.

4. click on the icon labelled “1 TB Seagate Desktop Media” and you’ll see a few options in the window; click “partition”

5. after this steps will vary depending on what you want to do with this. For what I wanted, I decided to create two partitions on my hard drive. So, under “volume scheme” I selected “2 partitions” then clicked on the top one and set it to 250 GB and that left 750.10 GB on the other one. For the “format” I selected “Mac OS X Extended” but you’d want to select the journaled option if you want to use either of these drives as a “boot disk”. I didn’t. Then hit “apply” and it will erase everything on the disk and break it into two sections.

Now when you plug in the hard drive two icons will appear on your desktop, as if there were two separate external drives. I use the smaller one for regular backups and the larger one for storing all of my old video files. I’m sure there are lots of other ways to get an excellent value from this sleek and handy little drive. Enjoy!

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MC516LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop

The white Macbook was updated on May 18 2010. There are minor differences between the 2010 Macbook and 2009’s model, detailed below.

2)Mini display port now supports video AND audio with a compatible Mini-DP to HDMI adapter. (Last years model only supported video)

” Meet the fastest, most powerful MacBook yet. It now features next-generation NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics, a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and 2GB of memory. That means MacBook can handle everything from surfing the web to the most graphically intense 3D games with ease.

It also features up to 10 hours of battery life and a glass Multi-Touch trackpad that supports inertial scrolling, right-clicking, and Multi-Touch gestures. All in a streamlined, durable unibody enclosure.”

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I am very happy with this laptop. The display is excellent, star-up and shut-down is very fast. After many year using windows, now I am very pleasant with this macbook pro.

Product Features

2.66GHz Intel i7 processor

4GB of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM

500GB 5400 rpm hard drive

17 inch (diagonal) LED-backlit antiglare widescreen display; 1920 by 1200 pixels

NVIDIA GeForce GT330M graphics processor with 512MB dedicated graphics memory

Built-in iSight video camera

8x slot-loading SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD+RW/CD-RW)

Mini DisplayPort Express card / 34slot, Firewire 800 port, and Output Ports Built-in stereo speakers Optical digital audio output/analog line out; built-in stereo speakers

Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet

Built-in AirPort Extreme wireless networking (802.11n) and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR Backlit keyboard and ambient light sensor

Preinstalled Mac OS X and iLife Size and weight: 15.4 x 10.5 x 0.9 inches; 6.6 lbs Meets ENERGY STAR requirements

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2.66GHz Intel Core i7 Processor, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB Hard Drive, Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard

Carved from a single block of aluminum, the MacBook Pro is a true engineering achievement. Its patented unibody enclosure is the product of precise machining. The new energy-efficient architecture in the MacBook Pro, gives you dramatically longer battery life. On a single charge, the battery in the new 13-inch MacBook Pro lasts up to 10 hours, and you’ll get up to 1000 full charge and discharge cycles — that’s nearly three times the lifespan of typical notebook batteries. MacBook Pro gives you more options for high-performance graphics, starting with the new NVIDIA GeForce 320M integrated graphics processor in the 13-inch model. It’s up to 80 percent faster than the previous generation and is even more energy-efficient for everyday tasks like writing email and surfing the web.

Every MacBook Pro has a pristine LED-backlit display with wide-angle viewing and a color gamut usually seen only on a desktop display. So whether you’re watching a movie or making one, you’ve got the perfect canvas. The ultrathin, seamless glass enclosure makes the display strong and durable. And because it’s power efficient and free of mercury and arsenic, this display is greener than ever.

The 13-Inch MacBook Pro has advanced Intel Core 2 Duo processors. It also comes standard with a large hard drive offering up to 250 or 320GB of storage capacity, so there’s plenty of room for your photo libraries, video projects, and files. And of course all MacBook Pros come standard with Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard Operating System and iLife.

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Updated with Intel’s Core i7 processor and next-generation NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics, the 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro is faster than ever and will keep you working longer away from power cords with an enhanced battery life of up to 9 hours of battery life. As with previous models, the new MacBook Pro features a precision unibody enclosure crafted from a single block of aluminum, creating a thin and light mobile computing workhorse (less than 1 inch thin and just 5.6 pounds) that’s also highly durable. And it includes a 15.4-inch, LED-backlit glass display (instead of an LCD panel) as well as a glass trackpad that doesn’t include a button (for larger tracking area) that features Apple’s Multi-Touch technology.

The MacBook Pro also offers excellent graphics flexibility with two video processors–the discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M processor (with 512 MB of GDDR3 video memory) for heavier workloads and an integrated Intel HD Graphics processor for better battery life on the go. And the new automatic graphics switching feature determines which graphics processor an application needs and switches instantly between the processors.

It comes pre-loaded with Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system–an operating system custom-designed for the advanced technology inside–and it also comes with the iLife ‘09 suite of applications, including iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, and iTunes.

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