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Archive for April, 2010

Since I had my Macbook about a month ago, I was always wanted to make myself easier by not buying a portable hard disk for mac only.

On the shelves of some several stores the prices of those Windows portable hard disks and Mac ones have a difference. Face it, portable hard disk for Mac only tends to more expensive as compared to Windows.

I was running low of space from my 80GB Samsung portable hard disk which I bought 5 years ago and I was thinking of getting a new one. On that Samsung hard disk, its on the NTFS file system, an unreadable file system for Mac and I did test it out … lol.

Anyway I went down to nearby store, grab me a low cost 500GB portable hard disk by Imation …. and for you who don’t know Imation uses Seagate hard disks.

I check out the file system and it was FAT32. Sounds familiar. Windows was using FAT 32 before Windows XP (if I might recall), but it doesn’t change my objective … can a Mac read NTFS ?

Well here comes the surprise …..

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Since Apple announce its latest creation the Ipad , a lookalike low cost tablet pc, there’s been a lot of buzz on the release of this product.

Apple is said to be releasing this product very soon and as I was typing this blog post, iPad seekers have already been waiting in line outside the Flagship Apple Store in Fifth Avenue Manhattan to have purchase the iPad as it makes its debut in New York City.

But as my blog says it …. “geeks hate it” … well you decide.

I’m a self confessed geek and for me i rather own a netbook instead of an iPad. Why?

Let’s check out my details:-

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