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Hello, does anyone know the best and least expensive portable, external hard drives for MacBook that are 1TB, 3.0 USB with the most featires.

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Hello, does anyone know the best and least expensive portable, external hard drives for MacBook that have all or most of these specs: 3.0, 7400 rpm, 1TB Thunderbolt, FireWire, a software package, self- encryption, self-backup, a warranty and good customer support.

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Good Hardrive For Macbook

does anyone know of a hardrive for the macbook maybe 100GB or 120GB? and sometihng not to expensive? and maybe a good brand for 1GB memory upgrades? thanks for the help in advance!

Any 2.5" SATA hard drive in that size range isn't going to be CHEAP...but make sure that the drive is 5400RPM to be safe, as that's what's listed for the 60 and 80 gig drives. Beyond that...can't really say, presumably all should go well if the new drive "fits the bill" in terms of specs and whatnot, but keep your original around just in case.
If all else fails I have had people say that a local apple retail store actually installed/upgraded the drive in store...so that may be another option if you want to know you're getting something that'll work.
In terms of memory, there are some manufacturer's out there that actually brand their memory as "apple memory". OCZ is one of them, and I have had a lot of people say they've had luck with Crucial SO-DIMM's. Again, as long as they're 667MHz PC2-5300 SO-DIMM modules you're more then free to give 'em a shot...but if you start to have what seem to be memory issues there's not much apple'll do to back you up.

Trying to connect a Lacie hardrive to MacBook Pro...

Hello, I am trying to use a LAcie hardrive to transfer documents & photos from a MacBook Pro to a MacBook Air. When plugged in to the Pro it shows up but I am unable to frag and drop items to the hard drive. Can someone please help...?

If the hard drive is formatted NTFS, Macs don't have write capability in the operating system built-in. You have these options:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3003

COMPATIBLE CAMCORDER & EXTERNAL HARDRIVE FOR MacBook WITHOUT FIREWIRE PORT.

Good Evening Ladies & Gentleman,
I have a MacBook(13" Aluminum 2008 version) that does NOT have a firewire port, just USB.
- As far as CAMCORDERS go, What Model and Brand is best compatible with it?
- Also, as far as EXTERNAL HARDRIVES goes, which ones will be most compatible with the MacBook 13" Aluminum version 2008?
- SUGGESTIONS WILL BE MUCH, MUCH APPRECIATED. THANKS.

Hey,
As for camcorders - I don't really think that there is any limitation caused by your Macbook. Perhaps every single model by all the wide-known manufacturers as Canon, Sony, Panasonic, etc. has a USB port, so you don't have to worry about firewire.
As for external hard drives - You can find a huge number of external hard drives that are 100% compatible with all Macs for sure, on the Apple Online Store.
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shopmac/macaccessories/storage?mco=MTM3NjUyMDQ
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Sharing External Hardrive Between Macbook and PC.

I bought a Western digital 120Gb hardrive. It seems to work perfectly well, but I have an issue.
I have loaded photos and movies on to it and I have attempted to connect it to a regular (non-Mac)PC to display them.
My problem is that the PC does not seem to know it is there. There is no sign that I have plugged it in.
Is this a feature of Macs or am I doing something wrong.
Any Input will be gratefully received.
Brad

the best way I've found to share external drives between them both is to make sure you format them using Fat32... then both Macs and PCs can access... I have 2 externals actually my old Macbook 120gb (Mac Formatted) for just time machine and Mac stuff, then a second smaller 40gb (Fat32) for Windows/Mac stuff... works out well.
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Failed hardrive in MacBook Air - 18 months old

Hi.
I have a MacBook Air that I have owned from new brought from the apple store 18 months ago.
It just stopped loading up one day a few weeks ago. (Grey screen - question mark in folder) No known reason for this..
Anyway I spoke to a very helpful apple advisor over the phone who went through some procedures and told me it was likely the hardrive had broken. He booked me in for a Genius Bar appointment and told me it was out of warrenty.
He told me it will need replacing but I can claim consumer law..? What does that actually mean? Will I have to part with any money? I don't see why I should when something relatively new has just failed on me!
Any ideas! Thank you!

I'm guessing from your username that you are from the UK (and maybe that you are female & dizzy?). If you are from the EU, the following link gives some details of the EU Consumer Law that was referred to. The fine print in the footnotes at the bottom may be helpful too. It sounds like the advisor thinks it may be covered. http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/

Installing New Hardrive into Macbook Pro 13" and can't boot

I have installed a new 500Gb 5400rpm drive into my macbook pro 13. Before I swapped the drives I used time machine to back-up onto my Lacie drive. Now the new drive is in. I turned on the computer, pressed the option button and nothing came up. I have now put my old HD into an enclosure and booted up from that drive. I copied my whole hd over to the new drive once it was formatted and tried to boot but this didn't work. I thought once I had the time machine back-up on a drive I would be able to press option when I turn on the computer and then that would workj. I don't have my OSX 10.6.8disk so am now just booting up off my old hd which is pointless. Can anyone help as I am losing my mind.

What happens when you install the original HDD in the MBP? If it does not boot , the connecting cable may be faulty.
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I want to upgrade my hardrive for MacBook Air 11"

Hi,
I want to upgrade my Macbook Air 11'. What is the easiest way to do this without having to carry bulk around as Im at school?

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How can I put OSX 10.7 on a new Macbook Air. Maverick no longer allows "open file in a new window" and I really miss it. At the Apple Store they told me it can't be added to the new OSX 10.10 so I want to change the OSX on the new Macbook Air and it

I have been using a 2012 Mac pro to do HD video editing. I bought a new portable Macbook Air only to find that Maverick no longer has "open files in a new window" which I use all the time in the very large folders of video clips and royalty-free music. I asked at the Apple Store how I could get this back on the Macbook Air and they said it couldn't be done so I thought I would re-format the HD and install 10.7 on it and was notified by the Macbook Air I can't put 10.7 on that computer. Apple use to give this as an option but now they have gone more to the attitude of "Do it our way or go to ****!" In anger I went out and bought a Dell Laptop and Pinnacle Studio 17 which I have been learning to use. I have been an Apple/Mac user since 1979 and would still rather do my video editing on a Mac. Is there any way that I can force the Macbook Air to let me load in OSX 10.7 where there is still the option to "open files in a new window" or is there a way to add this to Maverick? The experts at the Madison, WI Couldn't give me any help on this.

Choose Preferences from the Finder menu, click on the General tab, and uncheck the box to open folders in a new tab.
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I just got my first macbook air, and I have some questions?

I am trying to understand the battery cycles and the best way to charge and whatnot. I keep finding information that is different everywhere and I am not sure what the best way is.
-When using my macbook, should I leave it plugged in even at 100%? Or should I unplug it sometimes and leave it plugged in sometimes?
-Should I let the charge run all the way down or is there a good percentage to plug it in at?
-Should I shut it off or leave it in sleep mode when I am not using it for a few hours or overnight?
Also any general user tips to get used to my macbook and learn the tricks would be helpful! I did read the manual it came with by the way. I just want to take the best possible care of it because it was definitely an investment.

Proper understanding of a battery charge cycle
A charge cycle means using all of the battery’s power, whether that is at once, or over several shorter battery discharges and recharges.
Two examples for clarification:
As a first example, where one fully charged battery is discharged down to 10%, then fully recharged, then using 10% of that full charge, this counts as 1 cycle since the total of both discharges is 100% of a full charge of use.
In the second example, where one fully charged battery is discharged down to 40%, then fully recharged, then using 40% of that full charge, this also counts as 1 cycle since the total of both discharges is 100% of a full charge of use.
While both examples are that of a single charge cycle, the first example is more aggressive against the lithium battery chemistry than is the second example. In short, collective overall gentle shallow or mid-range draining of your lithium battery is a better use condition than is the first example of deep-draining of the battery. While both are quantitatively identical as a single charging cycle, they are wholly different qualitatively on the battery chemistry, which is directly related to its ultimate longevity and health.
In short, it is the near and mid-term life of the battery as relates to its proper care (or lack thereof) that is to be looked after.
Priorities in order of decreasing importance for battery care are:
1. Avoiding deep discharges of the battery.
2. Avoiding having your battery constantly on charge or on charge and in sleep mode.
3. When playing graphics intense games, use your notebook plugged in when possible.
4. Reduction of battery cycles by plugging into power when on the go, or when accessible.
A person who has, for example, 300 charge cycles on their battery and is recharging at say 40% remaining of a 100% charge has a better battery condition state than, say, another person who has 300 charge cycles on their battery and is recharging at say 10-15% remaining on a 100% charge. DoD (depth of discharge) is vitally important on the wear and tear on your Macbook’s battery, much more so than is the counting of charge cycles. There is no set “mile” or wear from a charge cycle in specific. Frequent high depth of discharge rates (draining the battery very low) on a Lithium battery will greatly hasten the lowering of maximum battery capacity.
Understand that a charge cycle is a general parameter of use, but is not directly related to the short-term or mid-term abuse of the battery, which can rapidly hasten a shorter lifespan, regardless of what the actual cycle count on the battery indicates.
Proper considerations for near-term care of the battery is of utmost importance. Abuse of the battery is entirely avoidable, long-term eventual old age deterioration of the battery is entirely unavoidable.
Apple’s adaptive charging system mitigates much potential for accidental battery misuse or abuse; however it is still readily possible to abuse the battery and thereby affect battery health.
General consideration of your MacBook battery
Contrary to popular myths about notebook batteries, there is protection circuitry in your Macbook and therefore you cannot ‘overcharge’ your notebook when plugged in and already fully charged.
However if you do not plan on using your notebook for several hours, turn it off (plugged in or otherwise), since you do not want your Macbook ‘both always plugged in and in sleep mode’.
Do not perform “battery calibration” on your current Macbook. There is no calibration of current Apple portable Macbooks with built-in batteries.
A lot of battery experts call the use of Lithium-Ion cells the "80% Rule", meaning use 80% of the full charge or so, then recharge them for longer overall life. The main quantified damage done in the use of Lithium Ion batteries are instances where the internal notebook battery is “often drained very low”, this is bad general use of your notebook battery.
All batteries in any device are a consumable meant to be replaced eventually after much time, even under perfect use conditions.
If the massive amount of data that exists on lithium batteries were to be condensed into a simplex, helpful, and memorable bit of information it would be:
1. While realistically a bit impractical during normal everyday use, a lithium battery's longevity and its chemistry's health is most happy swinging back and forth between 20% and 85% charge roughly.
2. Do not purposefully drain your battery very low (10% and less), and do not keep them charged often or always high (100%).
3. Lithium batteries do not like the following:
A: Deep discharges, as meaning roughly 10% or less. Avoid this in all instances if you can. This is hard on your battery.
B: Rapid discharges as referring to energy intensive gaming on battery on a frequent basis (in which case while gaming, if possible, do same on power rather than battery).
C: Constant inflation, as meaning always or most often on charge, and certainly not both in sleep mode and on charge always or often.
From Apple on batteries:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1446
"Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time."
Careful with your charger and its cable
Do not make any hard bends or folds in your charging cable, or wind it tightly, always make either circles or loose loops when winding your cord up for storage. Also do not, as many people have seen, unroll your charger block from the magsafe end by letting the charger drop and unroll itself like a yo-yo, this is both hard on the charger and its connection points at both ends.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1630

Manual Backup for MacBook Pro

I'm a little confused. I've been reading all the comments that suggest one should leave the Time Machine on automatic backup all the time, and that manual backup defeats the purpose. But what if I have to carry my MacBook around all day, and only manually back it up on the desktop hard drive in the evening when I get home? What do people normally do with their portable MacBook?

If you are a +mobile me+ member, you get backup, which lets you choose exactly what to back up (normally that'd be your ilife, including precious itunes library etc) and when and how often.
MobileMe only gives you 20 GB, and you have to share that between e-mail and your iDisk (which is where the backups are stored). For people with large media libraries, this is not enough backup space and backups are too slow. However, if your data fits in that volume, this would give you the ability to back up from anywhere... though, Backup is not remotely a background process that you can almost forget about, like Time Machine is. It's intrusive.
And you need a separate (or separately partitioned) drive for it.
Honestly, if you're not doing online backups, this is the way you should be backing up. You should have a dedicated backup drive that is used for nothing else. Actually, you should have a minimum of two if that's your only backup. Using a hard drive is probably the cheapest per-byte storage and lets you store a lot of data in one place.
Of course, TM is very useful but if you do "good housekeeping" \[...], then your Mac should give you years of joy.
If you're implying that backups are not necessary if you take good care of your machine, that is very poor advice indeed! You never know when something unexpected might happen - like a hardware failure of your hard drive. Unless you don't care about your data, you must back up. If you don't, it's only a matter of time before you do lose data.
For more information about backups, see my [Mac Backup Guide|http://www.reedcorner.net/thomas/guides/backups>

Does the desktop on the display match the desktop on the portable exactly?

I just want to check before I go ahead and order the display and the new MBA whether the desktops of the two will match perfectly.
The reason I am asking this is that I have been googling images of the display and in most of the pictures the display's desktop looks different to the desktop of the attached portable. This is also the case on Apple.com's site.
In one display, the desktop looks the same but is missing the dock.
I need to have the display showing the exact same desktop as my portable (Macbook Air 13 inch) including the dock. I know though the resolutions will be different so more of a web page will show up on the display. That is OK. That is the reason I am buying a display.
Examples of how the desktops differ:
http://www.thetechnologyblog.net/archives/category/mac-apple
http://www.techfresh.net/http://www.techdigest.tv/computers/monitors/2.htmlapple -27-inch-led-cinema-display/
http://www.macbookairreviews.com/category/macbook-pro/
Thanks for clearing up any confusion over this.

I need to have the display showing the exact same desktop as my portable (Macbook Air 13 inch) including the dock.
Enable mirroring in the "Arrangement" tab of "Displays" system preference.
I know though the resolutions will be different so more of a web page will show up on the display.
No. With mirroring you will see only what is on the MacBook display. The screen will have black borders if its resolution is greater than the MacBooks's displau.

MacBook Air or MacBook Pro for Quark XPress?

I've been a Windows PC user for the past 20+ years (Windows 3.0, people! Believe it or not!), but my new job responsibilities require me to work extensively with Quark XPress. I've got the Windows version, but everyone I'm having to swap files with uses a Mac, and it's just too darned tricky on a number of levels (okay, mainly with fonts. And other fonts. And still more fonts.)
So, I'm looking at a portable MacBook that I can set up on my desk alongside my Windows PC when I need to be working in Quark. I'm not so worried about connecting to my work network, since I can just put what I need to work on into Dropbox and grab it from there. I just want to know if a MacBook Air would up to running Quark XPress without lag, or if I should go with MacBook Pro?
Thanks!

15" MacBook Pro 2.2 Ghz or better, anti-glare high res screen a must. This is the pro work machine you need.
The 2.0 15" is cheaper, with a less powerful video card, no 3D gaming.
The MBA has a glossy screen and the optical drive is external, not enough ports for connecting things. Not a good choice. More of a lightweight personal machine.
I used to do GD as a youngster and those glossy CRT's messed up my eyes, don't let it happen to you, insist on anti-glare screens, it's worth it.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/05/23/glossy-vs-matte-screens-why-the-pc-indus trys-out-of-touch/
Problem is your going to have to hurry and get a MacBook Pro from a Apple Store very fast, becuase OS X Lion 10.7 just came out yesterday and Quark and other programs likely won't work with it unitl several months from now (and a paid upgrade most likely)
So you need a 10.6 MacBook Pro, which Apple still likely has one's avaiallbe in the Stores for only a few short days as they start issuing them with 10.7 automatically installed.
If you get a 10.7 then you likely can't run Quark. 10.6 is stable and 10.7 is far from stable, it's a mess.

Using iTunes, MacBook and the external HDD.

Hi there, however much I love iTunes, I absolutely despize the lack of function when it comes to splitting the music library between my MacBook and an external HDD.
I have a rather large Library and it is a real issue when using a HDD limited MacBook.
Why is there no simple function to allow a user to pass data back and forth between these?
iMovie has a very simple and wonderfully easy to use 'drag n drop' function which allows a user to move video between any or multiple external HDD and the HDD on the MacBook.
When connected, the media on the HDD is available to use in iMovie. When it is not connected, only the media on the MacBooks HDD is available.
Would it be conceivable to adopt a similar system whereby iTunes would 'show' an external HDD and allow a user to drag and drop media straight over?
Now THAT would be amazing! Please, it is terribly limiting and self-defeating to have a portable device without being able to EASILY move ones media from a 'home' based large external HDD and the more versatile, smaller portable MacBook HDD.
iMovie does it, can you adapt iTunes to do the same?
Yours,

click here and here for information.
also, peruse this user tip:
In iTunes 9.
iTunes prefs -> Advanced.
Set the iTunes media folder location to the external.
Then select the movie files (or any files in iTunes) and right click Consolidate.
This will copy only the movies to the external location.
After it finishes, iTunes prefs -> Advanced and set the iTunes media folder location back to the internal. This will tell iTunes to use the internal drive for new files.
You can then delete the movies from \Music\iTunes\ on the internal to free up space.
To copy a movie back to the internal, simply right click - Consolidate (since you pointed iTunes back to the internal).
just edit these instructions to meet your needs.
JGG

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