iBox (the hardware)
Cloudscout
– January 14, 2008 10:08AM
iBox
Box mini
Box Pro
BoxBook
BoxBook Pro
The more the boxes change, the more they stay the same... or don't.
(talk about the hardware here)
porruka
(Admin)
– March 25, 2012 04:13PM
tliet
– March 29, 2012 12:51PM
Performed open hearth surgery on my MacBook Pro 'early 2008' and installed a Samsung 830 SSD 64 Gb as a boot disk and a Hitachi 640 Gb disk in place of the SuperDrive.
Pretty satisfied now. I just saved myself 1000 euros buying a new MBP. It feels about twice as fast, if not faster.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/29/2012 12:54PM by tliet.
El Jeffe
– March 29, 2012 01:48PM
What a journey.
sounds speedy
John Willoughby
– May 23, 2012 08:48AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Jeff Cooper
– May 24, 2012 04:19AM
KInd of sad about this. I've had several La Cie drives over the years, including my very first external hard drive, a whopping 40 MB, purchased in 1990 (I think) so that I could stop using a boot floppy in my SE. That drive still works, as does the SE; I boot it up occasionally when I'm feeling nostalgic for System 6.0.3. There aren't many hardware names left from those days.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/24/2012 04:22AM by Jeff Cooper.
James DeBenedetti
– May 24, 2012 07:52AM
Why is it sad to see a supplier in a dying industry buy one of its customers?
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– May 24, 2012 03:37PM
Good riddance to LaCie. Three failed drives in as many years...
Cloudscout
– May 24, 2012 04:22PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
My uncle stopped by yesterday to drop off his LaCie drive that shit the bed. He's hoping I can recover his photos and stuff from it.
Madaracs had a LaCie go tits-up on him as well.
ddt
– May 24, 2012 07:54PM
I do hope you're speaking metaphorically about that drive.
ddt
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– May 25, 2012 05:22AM
Regarding the boob joke or the scatology?
John Willoughby
– May 25, 2012 07:46AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
>Madaracs had a LaCie go tits-up on him as well.
Were they Cie-cups?
Mokers
(Moderator)
– May 29, 2012 02:53PM
Formerly Remy Martin
Any external hard drive is really a crap shoot in my estimation. RAID 0 or cheap NAS if possible.
John Willoughby
– June 07, 2012 08:45AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Apple patents wedge-shaped laptops. I don't like these kind of patents, but I don't know what options Apple has. If they don't patent the MacBook Air shape then somebody else would, and would sue Apple. Now that they have the patent, they have to defend it, which means suing all those rip-off ultrabooks. It's like the system is set up to require and maximize litigation. I guess that's what you get when most of your legislators are lawyers.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– June 07, 2012 04:46PM
I'm surprised Apple didn't patent a pile of the iPhone touch screen technology (or at least the look & feel) so Google couldn't do its blatant ripoff with android.
(Kudos to Microsoft for at least coming up with a different paradigm).
Cloudscout
– June 07, 2012 04:52PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Apple didn't create anything novel with the iPhone touchscreen. It had all been done by smaller companies before. They just made it smoother with prettier icons.
Somehow they still managed to get a patent on the slide-to-unlock, though... in spite of clear prior art.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– June 07, 2012 05:57PM
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They just made it smoother with prettier icons.
Well, they should have patented that bit then.
tomierna
(Admin)
– June 22, 2012 05:44AM
Hideously Unnatural
I have a thunderbolt drive sled that works just fine. Not sure what you mean by how do we use it?
Dr Phred
(Moderator)
– June 22, 2012 12:14PM
-Swine Flu free since...cough, cough...
we are doing well with thunderbolt devices. remember, it does far more than just storage. It will handle just about any type of data. I like it for the idea of a universal data connector. Storage, network, video and displays, devices of almost any kind.
johnny k
– June 22, 2012 03:38PM
Curious what the BOM cost of a Thunderbolt connection is. I know Apple isn't the type to subsidize the cost, but Intel is. How badly do they want it to succeed?
