Tobi
I bought an external hard drive to back up my mac from Best Buy recently. Everything backed up ok, but I experienced problems with the hard drive later on. I am deciding to return the hard drive. What I'm worried about: Is it possible for someone to steal your info from an external hard drive like this if I choose to return it? Or does Best Buy wipe the thing clean?
Answer
They can, but it would be rare, the best thing to do to make sure and to keep your details safe would be to use your computers default formatting software, then download some formatting software from websites such as http://www.cnet.com Make sure it has a feature such as 'Deep Clean' or something similar, it will take off most of the data :)
They can, but it would be rare, the best thing to do to make sure and to keep your details safe would be to use your computers default formatting software, then download some formatting software from websites such as http://www.cnet.com Make sure it has a feature such as 'Deep Clean' or something similar, it will take off most of the data :)
mac book air?
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my dad's a ceo for one of apple's branches... so he gave me a new macbook air. he just left for a business trip and i have no clue how to burn a cd on this thing!!
is it even possible to burn a cd on the optical drive??
Answer
There is no optical drive.
So you have to buy a external one.
why the air is full of air:
the macbook air doesn't have a DVD drive.
It is $1800 for the "base model" and $3000 for the "high end one"
Why?
1. Very bad hard drive
When you spend $1800 for a computer, you expect a good hard drive. Instead, you get the crappy, slow 80 GB 4200 rpm HD.
If you "upgrade" to the $3000 model, you get a 64 GB hard drive. Its a SSD, but it won't improve performance much.
Now, if you don't know how small 80 GB is, when you get the laptop, it will only have about 75-76 GB avaliable.
The operating system and bundled software will use up about 10 GB.
So in reality, you will have about 65 GB of space left.
And you will have about 50 GB of space in the "upgraded" $3000 model.
50 GB is about 27.5 hours of DVD video.
Very small.
2. Slow CPU. A $1800 laptop ought to have the 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, but apple gives you a crummy 1.6 GHz with that much money.
3. Graphics- 144 MB integrated- I don't want to even talk about it.
4. Size- despite what apple says, the mac air is not the thinnest laptop around, and certainly not the lightest.
http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/toshiba-portege-r500-s5002/4505-3121_7-32466957.html?tag=pdtl-list
This laptop is much lighter, and smaller, and only .01 inch thicker, but it actually has a DVD drive, and is much less expensive.
5. limited expansion room.
You only get ONE USB port and a mini DVI for video- not even full size.
Plus, the case is so small, you cannot hope to expand anything inside it.
There is no optical drive.
So you have to buy a external one.
why the air is full of air:
the macbook air doesn't have a DVD drive.
It is $1800 for the "base model" and $3000 for the "high end one"
Why?
1. Very bad hard drive
When you spend $1800 for a computer, you expect a good hard drive. Instead, you get the crappy, slow 80 GB 4200 rpm HD.
If you "upgrade" to the $3000 model, you get a 64 GB hard drive. Its a SSD, but it won't improve performance much.
Now, if you don't know how small 80 GB is, when you get the laptop, it will only have about 75-76 GB avaliable.
The operating system and bundled software will use up about 10 GB.
So in reality, you will have about 65 GB of space left.
And you will have about 50 GB of space in the "upgraded" $3000 model.
50 GB is about 27.5 hours of DVD video.
Very small.
2. Slow CPU. A $1800 laptop ought to have the 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, but apple gives you a crummy 1.6 GHz with that much money.
3. Graphics- 144 MB integrated- I don't want to even talk about it.
4. Size- despite what apple says, the mac air is not the thinnest laptop around, and certainly not the lightest.
http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/toshiba-portege-r500-s5002/4505-3121_7-32466957.html?tag=pdtl-list
This laptop is much lighter, and smaller, and only .01 inch thicker, but it actually has a DVD drive, and is much less expensive.
5. limited expansion room.
You only get ONE USB port and a mini DVI for video- not even full size.
Plus, the case is so small, you cannot hope to expand anything inside it.
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