FireWire 800 Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Belkin's Thunderbolt dock delivers plug-and-play flexibility

by Michael Rose (May 9th, 2013)

It's dock o'clock, thank goodness, as Belkin's long incubation period of the Thunderbolt Express Dock closed out last month. The US$299 expansion peripheral is now shipping to customers; is it worth your attention? We've had a week to put it through its paces. The most direct product comparison ...

Mercury On-The-Go-Pro enclosure keeps your old internal drives useful

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 27th, 2013)

People often think there are only two options for old Mac laptops: sell them or throw them away. But there's a third option that can keep parts of your old MacBooks useful for a long time -- a hard drive enclosure. An enclosure allows you to turn any internal hard drive into an external ...

G-Technology G-Drive mobile: Rugged, pocket-sized, and fast

by Steven Sande (May 18th, 2012)

The march of technology amazes me. Yeah, I'm an old guy, but it still surprises me when I realize that the amount of storage that used to fill a data center can now fit in my pocket. G-Technology's G-Drive mobile (made by Hitachi, US$199.99 MSRP for 1 TB) is the perfect example of mass storage ...

Iomega Mac Companion Hard Drive: Big storage, high-powered charging ports

by Steven Sande (Aug 2nd, 2011)

Iomega has just introduced the new Mac Companion Hard Drive, a 2 or 3 TB external drive that not only offers a lot of storage in a nice-looking container, but also provides a high-powered USB port to charge up your iPad. The Mac Companion is priced a bit higher than high-capacity USB external ...

Western Digital's 3 TB MyBook Studio perfect for pre-Lion backups

by Steven Sande (Jul 16th, 2011)

Are you about to upgrade your Mac to OS X Lion? One recommendation from the TUAW staff is that you do a complete backup of your Snow Leopard installation before you start. With many Mac internal drives nearing the 1 to 2 TB range in size, how do you back up the drive and still have a hard disk ...

Ask TUAW: iMac processor upgrade, 27" iMac as display, wireless input devices, and more

by Mat Lu (Nov 26th, 2009)

Happy holiday, and welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about upgrading an iMac processor, using the 27" iMac as a display, sharing a Magic Mouse and Bluetooth keyboard with a Linux machine, and more. As always, your suggestions and ...

Mac mini refresh, what's new?

by Brett Terpstra (Mar 3rd, 2009)

I'm a big fan of the Mac mini: a surprisingly capable machine in an impossibly small size. There have only been a few major snags for me in the time I've owned Mac minis, and most of those were cleared up this morning. I know some will be disappointed to lose the FireWire 400 port, but I'm ...

Working with a robot: Drobo in action

by Steven Sande (Jan 30th, 2009)

We've talked about the Data Robotics Drobo storage solution here on TUAW a few times, but there hasn't been a hands-on review of the device on this blog...until now. The Drobo is a mass storage solution that takes advantage of RAID -- Redundant Array of Independent Disks -- to provide a single large ...

New, improved Drobo

by Steven Sande (Jul 9th, 2008)

For those of you who were waiting to buy a Data Robotics Drobo, wait no longer! Data Robotics announced the release of the second iteration of their 4-bay expandable storage solution, Drobo. Many potential buyers were aghast at the original version's lack of FireWire, so the company added FireWire ...

MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo notes

by Dan Pourhadi (Oct 24th, 2006)

Laurie just covered the release of the new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros, which tout an impressive 39% speedboost (or so Apple claims). But some of the best new tidbits are hidden inside the press release: All MacBook Pro models now include a FireWire 800 port -- meaning we can all rest assured in the ...

Apple introduces 17-inch MacBook Pro

by David Chartier (Apr 24th, 2006)

At least the Apple Store wasn't down this time for too long: today, Apple introduced the 17" MacBook Pro with an Intel Core Duo processor. It's lost .1 lb, now weighing a mere 6.8 lb, and also features a built-in iSight, Front Row and MagSafe - just like its 15" little brother. The ...