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Switch Day 58: Ten Pros and Cons of the MacBook Pro

Started by sfoskett · 7 months ago

I’ve now been a Mac user for two months. Since I switched primarily to get access to Apple’s excellent hardware, I thought I would issue an update on my observations about it at this point. I should note that I’m limiting this post to the hardware (maybe I&% ... Continue reading »

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  • Interesting that you said that the left USB port does not have enough power to spin up an external drive. I have a 15" MacBook Pro from June/July 2007 and I just bought a Western Digital MyPassport Essential 500 GB self powered USB external harddrive.
    Thing mounts fine is fast and I even render to and from it, and video it from there as well. Works just as well as an external with a power source. Maybe they decreased or changed the specs on the newer Macs that the ports aren't self powered anymore?

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