Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Humor, Peripherals, Apple, Mac mini, MacBook, Mac Pro As Macworld notes, this is it for the ol' Firewire 400. With the introduction of the new Mac mini the other day and the refresh of the Mac Pro and iMac lines, the old version of Firewire is left only on ...

Filed under: Apple, Mac mini 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 FireWir...

This morning we showed you an image of what might just be the Mac mini refresh after it was leaked around the interwebs last night. Skeptics across the web immediately dismissed it as a laughable Photoshop job and went to great lengths to prove their point. We were skeptical as well of course, but w...

Late last night a photo that is purported to be of the butt-end of the upcoming new Mac mini surfaced on the internet causing quite a fuss within the Apple community. Starting with the most glaring specs we see there are five USB ports, one FireWire 800 port, Mini DisplayPort, Mini DVI and last but ...

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Per effettuare backup dei miei PC e per immagazzinare foto e video, avevo intenzione di comprare un Hard Disk da 1 o 2 Terabyte della Western Digital: sembrano i più affidabili ed, inoltre, al momento, di queste dimensioni, nei negozi sembrano esistere prevalentemente di questa marca. Ho provato an...

Filed under: Hardware, Peripherals, Mac OS X Server 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 Arr...

Here we are againg few days after my previous post about disassembling the Western Digital MyBook Pro Editionexternal hard drive. After disassembling it I’ve tried in many ways (and with different tools) to recover it’s content, unfortunately without success … probably the recent, ...

What is the best way to monitor our teens’ Facebook activity? To my mind, this is more a parenting issue than a technology one. The easiest method would be to join Facebook yourself and become one of your teens’ ”friends” on each account they have. That might not sit wel...

There’s pretty universal consensus in the Mac portable community that Apple jumped the gun in dropping FireWire support from the new unibody MacBooks, with nothing adequate to replace its full functionality. Sure, you can transfer and backup files reasonably efficiently over a USB 2.0 connecti...