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The Secret of the Time Machine-Assisted Hard Drive Swap

There's never been a better time to void the warranty on your MacBook Pro and upgrade to one of those sweet 2.5" WD Scorpio 320GB drives. That was what made me throw caution to the wind and attempt a Time Machine-assisted swap. The good news is, it works as billed. You get a bit-for-bit transfer to the virgin drive with minimal fuss. The bad news is, if you don't use a little trick we discovered today, you probably won't get it to work at all. More »

12:00 AM on Thu Dec 13 2007
By Wilson Rothman
47,462 views, 60 comments

Latest by Raygo: Followed these instructions for a full system restore and my MBP will not get the gray "Appled" screen and keeps restarting. Re-erased, Re-restored and had ACL errors come up and would not let me know repair disk permissions Could someone help? Thanks more »

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Western Digital Ships 320GB 2.5-Inch Drives for Laptops

It's official: you can now buy a 320GB drive from WD for your laptop, and for just $200. The WD Scorpio SATA drive spins at 5400rpm and has a 8MB cache. The press release says it's "extraordinarily quiet while running at cool operating temperatures." I hope that doesn't mean it's extremely loud while running at super high temperatures. The important thing is, this timing coincides with the arrival of Mac's Time Machine and the Windows Home Server, two easy ways to offload your laptop's entire contents, swap out the internal drive, then restore your old image without a lot of tinkering. I know some of you like tinkering, but this is the future. [WD]

9:41 AM on Wed Oct 31 2007
By Wilson Rothman
11,192 views, 19 comments

Latest by glebec: Oh good... I just got a MBP (Oct. 1) with 160GB 7200rpm and after the fact I realized that wasn't going to be enough in the long term. Now the question is, when to upgrade (and cut off Apple support)? more »

scorpion king

80GB Zune Codenamed Scorpio

Zune fanatics, keep your eyes wide open as July approaches. Word on the web is that Microsoft is getting ready to roll out an 80GB model of the Zune, codenamed Scorpio. Precious little information is currently available, but it seems that Microsoft is gearing up for a holiday release. Whether or not Europe will get the Scorpio just as fast as America, or, at this rate, as fast as they get the original Zune has yet to be seen. More »

7:30 PM on Tue Jun 26 2007
By kevinhall2
4,847 views, 21 comments

Latest by Mario: Alright... so Microsoft, if your reading. PRICE THE ZUNE BELOW THE COMPETITION NOT ABOVE IT... 349.99 IS NOT the right price point, 299.99 IS THE RIGHT PRICE POINT. If you want to beat the ipod... then beat it, dont try to be more »