Review: My Passport Studio portable hard drive The My Passport Studio is a portable hard drive that’s bus powered—it doesn’t include a power adapter. The drive ships in a Mac-friendly format, and works with Leopard’s built-in disk back up utility, Time Machine.
Review: Little Big Disk Quadra 500GB portable hard drive LaCie’s Little Big Disk Quadra is a high capacity, portable storage device that can be powered off of a FireWire connection. It will cost you considerably more than a similar capacity desktop drive, but its RAID configuration helps keep the drive competitive with desktop drives in terms of performance.
Review: LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Disk As an external hard drive, LaCie's d2 Quadra Hard Disk is versatile in terms of connection support, generous in terms of software bundles, and solid in terms of performance. If you’re in the market for an external hard drive, the d2 Quadra Hard Disk definitely deserves your consideration.
In case of emergency In a summer full of natural disasters how prepared are you (and your Mac) for unanticipated emergencies?
Time Machine tips and troubleshooting Some people will be able to set up and turn on Time Machine with a single click. But you may need to do some manual configuration to get it to work the way you want. You should also be aware of some quirks in Time Machine’s operation, particularly when restoring data.
Excerpt: Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard The inclusion of Time Machine as part of Mac OS X 10.5 shows the importance of good backups for every Mac user. And while backing up and restoring files may be easier than before, you’re still going to need a place to store all that data. In this excerpt from his Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard ebook, Joe Kissell tells you what to consider when shopping for a backup drive to hold all that Time Machine-saved data.
How to: Upgrade a G5's optical drive How to upgrade the optical drive on a first-generation Power Mac G5, and what kind of results you can expect after the upgrade.
PC World: Some things weren't in the air at Expo Apple's tagline for the just-concluded Macworld Expo was "There's something in the air." But for everything that was "in the air" this past week, there were pre-show rumors that didn't pan out, products that didn't receive enough attention, and announcements ripe for second-guessing.
The 23rd Annual Editors' Choice Awards Every year, Macworld editors see a mass of products, and every year, a few emerge from the crowd because of their innovation, value, or quality. Those are the ones that capture our annual Eddy Awards, given to our favorite products of the year. In 2007, 32 products caught our fancy. See if our favorites match yours.